scrofulous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrofulous
Adjective
  • But these are only the 'official' statistics released by corrupt City Officials.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Boys, a satirical drama about vigilantes who set out to take down corrupt superheroes, is gearing up for the release of its fifth and final season, expected sometime in 2026 on Prime Video.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The series refutes two of Donald Trump’s bigger lies: that climate change is a hoax and undocumented immigrants are depraved.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
  • That's the sort of depraved conditions that drove those in detention there to ten days of hunger strike so far.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In his native Germany, he was reviled by the Nazis as a degenerate artist.
    Celia Bell July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • In a guest role that’s been extremely well hidden in the months leading up to the premiere, Bradley Cooper turns heel as Elijah Gemstone, a degenerate con man who sees right through Abel Grieves’s lucrative scam before plugging him in the forehead.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • Nick, a prequel to the original, offers us Carraway’s backstory as a soldier in World War I and a wanderer trying to find his way in a dissolute world.
    Danielle Teller, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Prater has a sick fascination with serial killers, collecting their trophies and even inviting the most notorious of them to gatherings at his mansion.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The nerve-rattling new A24 drama from writer-director Mary Bronstein, in theaters Oct. 10, stars Byrne, 46, as Linda — a therapist with mental health struggles, a wife to an absent husband and mother to their sick daughter.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Here a book worth considering is ‘From third world to first’ - Lee Kwan Yew's first person story of transforming Singapore from a pestilential swamp into a metropolis.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Here a book worth considering is ‘From third world to first’ - Lee Kwan Yew's first person story of transforming Singapore from a pestilential swamp into a metropolis.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In a searing rebuttal days before the British socialite was convicted for procuring victims for Epstein’s abuse in December 2021, Comey spoke to the perverted duo’s reasons for targeting teens from disadvantaged backgrounds.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
  • Jeff is a bit of a voyeur or peeping Tom, though not in a perverted way.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • The direct cost of the tariffs on aerospace is estimated to be as high as $5 Billion, but the real cost is far more pernicious.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Many scandals arise from the occasion of these activities, and adulteries and other outrageous crimes are committed as a clear offence to God, a very serious danger to the souls of those committing them, and a pernicious example to others.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Scrofulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrofulous. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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