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
  • They are accused of encouraging dissent against the regime and were convicted of broad charges of corruption, CNN’s Isobel Yeung reports.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • Each saw human nature as susceptible to corruption by base impulses and self-interest.
    — Donovan Fifield, The Conversation, 16 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
  • 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
  • The Fair Districts law is a partisan perversion walking around in a phony non-partisan trenchcoat.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • And a relatively small number of conservative states have banned drag shows under public indecency or obscenity statutes.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 30 June 2026
  • Some of the city's health standards will also be revised to add exceptions to existing indecency laws.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 25 June 2026
Definition of indecency
Noun
  • Thek had a long-standing fascination with bodies, those repositories of hope and decay, but neither show focusses much on that.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • Without a triggering event, the decay stays visible only to the people doing the extra work.
    — Kerry Huang, Forbes.com, 17 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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