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Noun
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Speaking after him, another pastor compared Austin to Nineveh, a city associated with wickedness in the Old Testament.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025 -
Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their universe of sycophants who worship wickedness can’t be changed by continues eye contact.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Miss Lonelyhearts—who is actually a man—is an advice columnist receiving letters from people who are impoverished, in despair, and surrounded by an atmosphere of moral depravity and incipient fascism.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
16 July 2025
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This swift and near-total capitulation to political depravity is for many people outside the United States an extraordinary sight.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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The enormity of what happened in so short a span of time beggars belief.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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The power of Adolescence is the way the enormity of this crime plays out over time, starting with the arrest, then the investigation, then the psychological report, and, finally, the family’s attempts to deal with it all.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Baseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baseness. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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