disreputableness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disreputableness
Noun
  • The degradation of Iran, its centuries-old foe, is set to be just the latest strike of good fortune.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 14 June 2026
  • Forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging and drought, affects about 40% of the Amazon and has outpaced clear-cutting in recent years.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 June 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
  • In the futures space, investors continued to unwind exposures to the debasement trade.
    Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 11 June 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
  • Control was wrested back towards the end of the period, a sign of better things to come, even if that profligacy that has dogged them so much reared once again in stoppage time at the end of the half.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • Such profligacy slows real income growth, deters hiring, discourages innovation and drives up interest rates.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In contrast to the existing HBM products which rely on an indirect cooling method that draws heat away through the core die, the iHBM solution places ICEs on top of the D2D PHY region, thus creating an additional heat dissipation pathway for reducing the thermal load.
    Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • That's because unlike normal stars, white dwarfs support themselves through degeneracy pressure, the absolute refusal of electrons to share space.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Reformers seized on this as both a public-health and a moral crisis; for many Progressives, dirt itself was a sign of degeneracy.
    Jacob Beckert, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In scoring it a triple-gold – with an unprecedented 19 out of 20 possible points (five potential points each by way of appearance, nose, palate and quality-to-price ratio) – the judges lauded the 110-proof whiskey’s complexity and decadence.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 June 2026
  • This time, any remaining impulses of late 1990s and 2000s decadence have been erased with features like a social lobby and a sprawling rooftop park with verdant landscaping with Adirondack chairs and a campfire.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
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“Disreputableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disreputableness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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