disreputableness

noun

Definition of disreputablenessnext
as in disgracefulness

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  1. degradation
  2. profligacy
  3. dissipation
  4. degeneracy
  5. decadence
  6. corruption
  7. perversion
Noun
  • The effects of ecological degradation, including pollution, habitat destruction and climate change, will be a significant concern for some organizations across industries.
    Maureen Metcalf, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Researchers say this rampant accumulation may be occurring because many types of PFAS unleash TFA as a product of their degradation.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of degradation
Noun
  • Defense spending that grows and grows without substantive reforms and allows a department that has never passed an audit to perpetuate its profligacy.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • On the balance of the play, Arsenal probably deserved more than nothing last season and the inverse was true at Villa Park on Saturday evening, decided by the host’s profligacy and conceding at a stage when Arsenal were stumbling.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
Definition of profligacy
Noun
  • The tonal shift goes from melancholy dissipation to ruinously adventurous.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The device also features thermal architecture that works with the Mac mini 2004 using air ducts and a metal casing that maximizes heat dissipation from the SSD and its controller.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • America, Where the Dogs Don’t Bark and the Birds Don’t Sing The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • For all its seriousness, there’s an archness and decadence to the whole affair.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Some garments have high shine; others are more subtle in their decadence.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of decadence
Noun
  • The only other president to be successfully impeached was Park Geun-hye, a conservative who left office in 2017 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a corruption scandal involving major corporations and the daughter of a cult leader.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
  • In 2016, parliament impeached Park Geun-hye, the country’s first female president, over a corruption scandal.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • There’s an itch to depict Diddy as a Black Jeffrey Epstein, the ringleader of clandestine, A-list perversion.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Spanish officials also accused Vives of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perversion of justice and are currently seeking a six year prison sentence for the executive.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perversion
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