looseness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
Noun
  • This is about the age when skin laxity, jowling, and deeper folds are more pronounced.
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 16 June 2025
  • What sets it apart from peers like vitamin C, however, is that retinol can tackle just about every sign of premature skin aging, including fine lines and wrinkles, skin laxity, and hyperpigmentation (a contributor to dark circles).
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Spaces that seem most interested in the permissiveness of perversion.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 25 June 2025
  • Enter the wannabe patriot dealing with some perversion of the psyche.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • The document accused Jewish people of promoting white genocide and degeneracy.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a risk of indecency, certainly, but the boundary is subjective, and Bayern smashing 10 past Auckland was merely them completing a full day’s work.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Rodriguez was taken into custody without incident and transported to police headquarters where he was charged with breach of peace and public indecency.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Moderate degeneration of up to two lumbar intervertebral discs was confirmed by an MRI scan.
    Paul McClure May 06, New Atlas, 6 May 2025
  • Scientists have uncovered critical pathways to combat osteoporosis and related conditions more effectively and efficiently by studying rapid skeletal degeneration in microgravity.
    Shelli Brunswick, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That much of this criminality has occurred on American college campuses is because many who inhabit these campuses – faculty, administrators, and students – either support it or refuse to condemn it.
    Jay Bergman, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
  • The state has failed to produce a single piece of evidence linking me to any act of violence or criminality.
    Mahrang Baloch, Time, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Those seeking juicy insights about intra-group dynamics or the dissolution of the marriages between Faltskog and Ulvaeus and Andersson and Lyngstad during ABBA’s pinnacle should look elsewhere.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • The potential dissolution of Tuvalu presents companies with new challenges in domain management.
    Daniel Strauss, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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