scurrilousness

noun

as in pervertedness

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  1. corruption
  2. degeneracy
  3. perversion
  4. indecency
  5. decay
  6. squalor
  7. malefaction
  8. depravity
Noun
  • His priorities include stopping corruption in Congress, making housing more affordable, protecting public lands, defending the Second Amendment and strengthening public schools, according to his website.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 30 July 2026
  • For years, Deborah Witzburg sounded the loudest alarm when uncovering hundreds of cases of corruption and fraud inside Chicago city government.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Speaking to the Freedom Fighters club in Arlington July 1, Hall said moral degeneracy, discipline issues and low literacy rates are products of removing the Bible from classrooms.
    — Rachel Royster. Produced with AI assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026
  • The team found that a near-infrared resolving power of at least 40 is the minimum needed to break that degeneracy.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 10 June 2026
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • The leprous, lascivious body was a perversion that Western proselytizing could fix.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • There was so much striving, by individuals and their teams, striving for the World Cup trophy and striving against every structural indecency that conspired to compromise the game’s integrity.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • My fiancé’s older brother is in prison for felony indecency with a child.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Definition of indecency
Noun
  • The system detects gamma rays released when atomic nuclei collide and decay, giving researchers a direct look at the forces holding atomic cores together.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In many cities, the autonomy of drug users has taken precedence over nearly everything and everyone else, not least working-class families like Monsegur’s who must live alongside addicts and accept dystopian decay.
    — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of decay
Noun
  • The children reportedly lived in squalor and weren’t enrolled in school.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
  • Reform and Restore are no doubt relying on support from pockets of deprivation, squalor and neglect in Makerfield.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Definition of squalor
Noun
  • And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
Definition of malefaction
Noun
  • Las Vegas’s economy has had to contend with a public whose interests are trending away from depravity and toward wellness.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • Major League Eating organizes the event, and its International Federation of Competitive Eating is the governing body that oversees such depravity.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of depravity
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“Scurrilousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilousness. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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