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
  • The engine manufacturer conducted post-test inspections after the evaluation and found no evidence of degradation.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • For example, the company traced the helium leaks to valve problems — specifically, degradation that occurred after exposure to nitrogen tetroxide, the oxidizer in Starliner's propulsion system.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Sep. 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
  • His first-half profligacy, at odds with his attacking threat, exemplified that notion.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Such profligacy slows real income growth, deters hiring, discourages innovation and drives up interest rates.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 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
  • And that’s where the groundswell of the past few weeks isn’t just another temporary dissipation of some angry energy.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The expert also pointed to shielding and heat-dissipation requirements.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • East of Eden is a tome obsessed with guilt, sin, ambition, race, the land as healing and capitalism as putrefying, the nature of fate and the question of free will, and the role money and inheritance play in either our corruption or our cleansing.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Brown, who served as the union’s chief of staff and as special assistant to ex-International President Newton Jones, is the first of eight former Boilermakers to be sentenced in the federal corruption case.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Its technological perversions, unfortunately, end up quite mundane.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Politicians and preachers denounced them for blasphemy, perversion, and their loud support for civil rights.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of perversion
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