scurrilousness

noun

Definition of scurrilousnessnext
as in pervertedness

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  1. corruption
  2. degeneracy
  3. perversion
  4. indecency
  5. decay
  6. squalor
  7. malefaction
  8. depravity
Noun
  • But Bondi is also overseeing cuts within her building, including to the Public Integrity Section that takes on corruption cases against public officials, according to multiple media reports and confirmed by a former Justice Department official.
    — David Catanese, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Compassionate Release of Nick Bovis Nick Bovis, a former San Francisco restaurateur, pleaded guilty to Honest Services and Insurance Wire Fraud in a political corruption case.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.
    — Kary Love, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.
    — Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Clark, instead, memorializes Black Twitter, hoping to prevent further perversion of Black innovation, Black language, culture and style.
    — J Wortham, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • Less than two years later in 1977, he was convicted of indecency with a 12-year-old girl and served just over three years in prison.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Todd was outspoken about the corrosive impacts of Trump-era lies and indecency — and was ridiculed by Trump and others for it.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
Definition of indecency
Noun
  • And these beverages also contribute to tooth decay.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
  • One recent exhibit displayed a series of rough-hewn public fountains that evoked post-apocalyptic decay.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of decay
Noun
  • They are often banned from visiting temples and forced to live apart from higher-caste communities, often in squalor and farther from access to services.
    — Esha Mitra, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The writer-director revisits an idea that worked well in his screenplay for 2002’s Chicago — paralleling squalor and splendor, with central characters stuck in grim reality seeking escape through Golden Age Hollywood musical fantasy.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of squalor
Noun
  • And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.
    — Orange County Register, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
Definition of malefaction
Noun
  • Combined with his two escapes from prison, representing himself in court, the sheer number of victims and the depravity of his crimes, Bundy left behind a horrifying, but powerful, legacy that remains over 30 years after his death by electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989.
    — Jessica Sager, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And a few good men and women, fighting to survive amidst all the malice and depravity.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of depravity
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