scurrilousness

noun

as in pervertedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scurrilousness
  1. corruption
  2. degeneracy
  3. perversion
  4. indecency
  5. decay
  6. squalor
  7. malefaction
  8. depravity
Noun
  • The two candidates have gone head-to-head in recent weeks over support of police and plans to fight corruption in what’s sure to be one of the top races to watch this fall.
    — Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The alleged corruption occurred between 2019-24 while Hédouville headed the Office of Citizen Protection, the government agency charged with safeguarding human rights.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 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
  • Politicians and preachers denounced them for blasphemy, perversion, and their loud support for civil rights.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The leprous, lascivious body was a perversion that Western proselytizing could fix.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • Schlosser was charged with Class 4 felony public indecency involving exposure within 500 feet of an elementary school.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Our views on morality and indecency are rife with inconsistency and hypocrisy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of indecency
Noun
  • Ewa Mroczkowska’s production design also turns dewy embankments, decadent interiors, and sunrises over cemeteries into visions of storybook-like decay.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • One of them in particular, portrayed with vicious snark by Vicky Krieps, revels in the moral decay of her times, thirsting for blood.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of decay
Noun
  • Amid the squalor and chaos of a Provincetown kitchen, Anthony Bourdain found his—and Tony did, too.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Watts played Rose Mary Walls, the mother of a nomadic family living in poverty and squalor.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 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
  • The depravity of the aristocrats in the periphery comes off as deliciously cartoonish, likely because that’s how Fyodor perceives them.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Every other entry either dwells in its characters’ filth throughout or reveals a new level of depravity as the climactic joke.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of depravity
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