disgracefulness

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Noun
  • One man’s modernity is, of course, another’s degradation, and, as dinner was served, the conversation turned to such recent innovations as ghost runners, pitch clocks, and robot umps, none of them to Murray’s liking.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Critical rehabilitation work has begun on about 1 ½ miles of sanitary sewer pipe in Macomb County, Michigan, after utility crews found severe degradation in the line.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • But, in an interview given in October, 2001, Navarro attempted to fill, with what sounds like shamelessness, the gap between himself and his alter ego.
    Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement This is not the first time that Milei, who rose to power in part with attacks on the venality of Argentina’s elite, has been tarred with corruption accusations.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Humor savors an infirmity — a foible, a failing, a venality, a flaw.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Such profligacy slows real income growth, deters hiring, discourages innovation and drives up interest rates.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Such profligacy slows real income growth, deters hiring, discourages innovation and drives up interest rates.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Dollar debasement Emmanuel Cau, head of European equity strategy at Barclays, expects the euro to extend recent gains against the dollar.
    Michael Considine, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Bakri’s face is impassive and exhausted during this casual debasement, his voice low, and his tone deadpan, as though Salim has been forced to do all this a million times before.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • To measure overall turbulence, Turbli used a metric called the eddy dissipation rate, or EDR, to assign turbulence level scores.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
  • Brembo says the discs have been designed for rapid heat dissipation, while the mineral oil's viscosity remains stable across a wide range of temperatures.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • The Criminal Division will not allow foreign actors to exploit the American financial system and use it as a safe haven for the proceeds of their corruption.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • The vote on March 22 was marred by allegations of foreign influence and corruption.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • The Fair Districts law is a partisan perversion walking around in a phony non-partisan trenchcoat.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Disgracefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgracefulness. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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