scurrilousness

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Noun
  • The law aims to curb corruption and undue influence in federal campaigns.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • The mayor has denied the allegations in the past, even after several DOJ officials resigned following the Trump administration’s move to drop the corruption charges.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 28 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This reflects the idea of decay or rot associated with damp, earthy conditions.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Sections of peeling bark or cracks in the bark can signal infestation or decay.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • His novels explore the moral squalor of all wars, justified or not.
    Rav Grewal-Kök June 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • The film’s sheer, unrelenting squalor can wear you down, too.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025
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
  • A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.
    Orange County Register, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
Noun
  • Succession managed to capture the depravity, hilarity, and emptiness of modern politics, media, and moguldom existing parallel to the perpetual real-life crises of its run from 2018 to 2023.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
  • Physical tiles representing tragedy and human depravity.
    Victoria Bousis, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
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“Scurrilousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilousness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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