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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scurrilousness
Noun
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The series is centered on organized crime and corruption in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era, using real-life characters like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025 -
Trump's Justice Department dropped corruption charges against Adams earlier this year.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The document accused Jewish people of promoting white genocide and degeneracy.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That's a perversion of the separation of powers and the role of an independent Justice Department.—
Ryan Lucas,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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These opposition movements shared one common goal: exposing the fallacies of the communist perversion of truth.—
Andrew Nagorski,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Nov. 2012
Noun
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In the stage show, set in Argentina in 1983, political prisoner Valentín Arregui is transferred to a cell already occupied by Luis Molina, a gay window dresser convicted on trumped up charges of public indecency.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Justin Robinson, 23, of Meriden was charged Saturday with public indecency, third-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, according to Connecticut State Police.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Teeth grinding can also cause more cavities to occur as grinding teeth together strips them of some of the protective enamel that could otherwise prevent tooth decay.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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All water has some fluoride, but many cities and counties in the state add more to help prevent tooth decay.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2025
Noun
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The film’s sheer, unrelenting squalor can wear you down, too.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
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Women gather together, all fully covered in the Islamic niqab, as hundreds of young children from strikingly diverse ethnic backgrounds wander through the squalor.—
Richard Engel,
NBC News,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Johnson said the disturbing account was just one night in 20 years of violence, abuse and depravity that jurors would hear about throughout the trial, expected to last eight weeks.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
12 May 2025
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The British pop quintet Idles is the band of this moment — a moment defined by an inscrutable youth culture protesting in support of abhorrent political positions or embracing styles of self-abusive depravity.—
Armond White,
National Review,
7 May 2025
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“Scurrilousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilousness. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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