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Noun
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So long as Palestinians are violent Jew-hating savages, the conflict has nothing to do with Israeli occupation and all to do with the wickedness coursing through Palestinian blood.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025 -
The tinny, atmospheric beat escalates the wickedness, like a party that ends with a seance.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2025
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The film premieres March 15 at the Roxy Cinema in New York, and stars Dario Yazbek Bernal and Jack Irv as two lovers whose whirlwind romance sends them down a rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2025
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But what starts out as an easy payday soon becomes an unsettling journey into the deepest pits of human depravity.—
S.A. Cosby,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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In terms of challenges regarding sustainability, one of the biggest has been breaking down the enormity of the task at hand to be more socially and environmentally aware.—
Christopher Marquis,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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But that adage doesn’t go nearly far enough to convey the enormity of the likely fallout from US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a colossal set of new tariffs on America’s trading partners.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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But slightly lesser known is that film’s sort-of sequel, The Look of Silence, which tells the stories of victims of such atrocities.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Too often, shooters use unsecured weapons to commit these atrocities.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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The skyscrapers, cloudless skies and sheer decadence of that kind of rooftop amenity all to yourself, in the middle of the metropolis.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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That is a sign of political decadence and will be self-defeating in the end.—
The Editors,
National Review,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Hellishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellishness. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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