scurrilousness

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Noun
  • The causes of displacement are largely attributed to political conflict, corruption, violence and economic hardship, including widespread poverty.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Though the official inquest failed to determine whether Zac jumped to escape danger or to kill himself, The New Yorker’s Keefe winds up blaming the death on the corruption of London in recent decades by oligarchs, con men, and international criminals.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Some lambasted the degeneracy of the modern language.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Eric Swalwell, a prominent Democratic House member and a front-runner in the race for California governor, had his political career blown up by allegations of degeneracy and abject stupidity.
    Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But there’s more to it than gleeful perversions of genre.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This garish cavalcade of perversions, which just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, should have been shocking and transgressive; the pieces are certainly there.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The ordinances would create a licensing framework, update zoning regulations, revise health standards and add exceptions to existing indecency laws.
    Eric Henderson, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That has given the agency the legal ability to regulate such things as indecency and obscenity, as well as commercials in children’s programming.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In detectors filled with liquid argon, the decay of this isotope creates signals that can look deceptively similar to the ones scientists are searching for.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Some formulas can remove surface stains caused by coffee, smoking or wine, while others address tougher stains caused by decay, age or genetics.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But does the vitality mask the squalor or the squalor the vitality?
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2026
  • And while these tenants paid their rent month after month, some of them up to $900 a month to live in squalor.
    Nikki DeMentri, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
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
  • Taken together, this network continues to expose the depravity of what these women endured, and to demand accountability from a society that has closed its eyes to the horrors for far too long.
    Pramila Jayapal, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And every film nerd knows that the production’s depravity and delirium almost surpasses the film’s—Apocalypse Now’s Wikipedia page is as wild as the film itself.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Scurrilousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilousness. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.

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