scurrilousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scurrilousness
Noun
  • The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.
    Graham Smith, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Thao has since been indicted for bribery and corruption.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But only a cynic would assert that his decision to appoint a Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets, not to mention the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, was an attempt to justify his memecoin degeneracy.
    Sean Lee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Another consequence of vote-threatening public discontent with mass chemical slavery and the abject squalor, the thieving, the degeneracy, and the organized crime that comes with it, has been the recriminalization of drugs in Oregon this September.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Genter writes that which acts between women might constitute perversion was an open question.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 6 Apr. 2025
  • However, Ma Mère is expressly about perversion.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The spokesperson did not respond to an email from the Statesman about the new indecency bill.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Less than two years later in 1977, he was convicted of indecency with a 12-year-old girl and served just over three years in prison.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One hundred and thirteen years later, much of the great vessel — and what’s left of its splendors — remains in the same spot it was found four decades ago in 1985, though decay and human interference have changed its form over time.
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Water fluoridation has been proven to be so effective at preventing tooth decay that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) named it one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century, a time during which Americans' life expectancies rose by 30 years.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And what of the fact that Snow White, abandoned in the woods (where the Huntsman is too kindhearted to carry out the Evil Queen’s order to murder her), comes upon a cottage where seven cute, quarrelsome 249-year-old short men with Amish beards live in bachelor squalor and become her protectors?
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • They are often banned from visiting temples and forced to live apart from higher-caste communities, often in squalor and farther from access to services.
    Esha Mitra, CNN, 22 Feb. 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
  • The film premieres March 15 at the Roxy Cinema in New York, and stars Dario Yazbek Bernal and Jack Irv as two lovers whose whirlwind romance sends them down a rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
  • But what starts out as an easy payday soon becomes an unsettling journey into the deepest pits of human depravity.
    S.A. Cosby, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Scurrilousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilousness. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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