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Noun
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Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.—
Michael S. Roth,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025 -
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
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As Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of murder and depravity builds to its climax, the film’s ostensible hero, tennis professional Guy Haines (Farley Granger), needs to get out ahead of the psychopath (Robert Walker) who means to frame him for a murder.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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Ireland showed its longstanding, if well-earned, animus toward Britain by choosing to be neutral during the Second World War—despite the depravity of Nazism.—
Philip Metres
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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These instant charge-ups happen repeatedly, billions of times per second, in periods of high demand (like wrapping your mind around the enormity of that statistic).—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 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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What if the atrocities amount to genocide?—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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So much atrocity, so much terror is unbearable.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Think of Cecil Beaton, and think of decadence aplenty, one of the great cultural figures of the 20th century.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Premier League fans are in for a west London derby of decadence as title-chasing Chelsea hosts Fulham on Saturday.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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