disgracefulness

noun

as in pervertedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgracefulness
  1. degradation
  2. shamelessness
  3. venality
  4. profligacy
  5. debasement
  6. dissipation
  7. corruption
  8. perversion
Noun
  • Another factor is the degradation of Russia’s refinery infrastructure, which has sustained considerable damage from Ukrainian attacks.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Oxford Economics found that 47% of technology leaders said customers are often the first to detect service degradation or outages.
    — Rohan Joshi, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of degradation
Noun
  • The lucrative example paved the way for more than two decades of musical theater shamelessness.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • The world has gotten a glimpse of the fawning, skeezy shamelessness of his famous hangers-on, but not enough to criminally implicate them.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
Definition of shamelessness
Noun
  • There will be controversy, grift and venality, supporters will get lost and lose themselves in a fog of legalese, accounting and abbreviations — VAR, SCR, LOL, FFS — there will be ugliness and misgivings and a lot of meh.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The same amount of venality and virtue exists today as did back then, and so human nature just doesn’t change.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 July 2026
Definition of venality
Noun
  • Decades of fiscal profligacy, including the costs of an extended conflict with Japan in Korea, had drained the imperial treasury.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
  • His first-half profligacy, at odds with his attacking threat, exemplified that notion.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of profligacy
Noun
  • Piker’s is the worst of the debasement, but by no means the extent of it.
    — Joshua M. Davidson, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The debasement trade is experiencing a revival, and that could catapult bitcoin to a new all-time high, according to Bernstein.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of debasement
Noun
  • Both machines run on the same 12-core M6 chip, but have quite different thermal dissipation and airflow due to their radically different designs.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Dusty coils can interfere with heat dissipation and may reduce refrigerator efficiency.
    — Brigitt Earley, Martha Stewart, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • The ArkTrust Task Force, our public corruption task force, brings together federal, state, and local partners to investigate allegations of public corruption and ensure that no one is above the law.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Its image as a rollicking playpen of vice and corruption emerged in the ‘20s and ‘30s, partly out of screenplays by former Chicago newspaper man Ben Hecht.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Or at least something rendering with enough clarity to make an ordinary perversion be seen in a new light?
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Its technological perversions, unfortunately, end up quite mundane.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of perversion
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“Disgracefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgracefulness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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