scatological

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scatological
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, her best friend Brett (Ben Rappaport), a landscaper by trade, is adjusting to life as a single dad after his wife’s salacious affair.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The film doesn’t get into any of the more salacious rumors about the band.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In its first two seasons, viewers have gone on transcontinental journeys, including an indelicate hotel manager in Hawaii and a strange love square in Italy.
    Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Advertisement The president-elect’s style — brash, indelicate and pugilistic — is distilled in his son.
    Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The latest: Photos and videos posted to Facebook, Reddit and other sites showed the Patriots Place sign displaying non-explicit cartoon images of anthropomorphic dogs, a cat and one very suggestive purple wolf on a rainbow background.
    Mike Deehan, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
  • However, both workers had shown symptoms suggestive of infection, the study said.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • And while this time there are no actual goats wandering around, Sedgwick provides some barnyard accompaniment with a screaming toy as Bacon strums his acoustic guitar.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Shaun the Sheep fans can't get enough of these barnyard animals and all their gentle adventures.
    Marisa LaScala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
Adjective
  • The collection leaned heavily on earthy tones, reflecting the dusty, dark hues of fall and winter across various materials and textures.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Feminine floral notes, warm earthy hints, subtle citrus touches, robust musky undertones—there are so many fragrance types to explore, and 2025 is seeing the resurgence of a nostalgic array of perfume notes: sweet and gourmand.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The massive tag is gone now but something just as indecorous seems likely to replace it.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • With round-the-clock musicians, magicians, comedians, blue men and white Bengal tigers, the Strip became the premier global destination not just for indecorous gambling, but also for family-friendly entertainment.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • Much of the dialogue is hilariously ribald, especially in a locker room scene in which the two nude men share a tender familial embrace after comparing penises.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • The couple became a symbol of marital stability in the freewheeling rock world, even as Charlie drummed for a band that was the most famously ribald band in music history.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Amid rising trade tensions, there was a broad risk-off decline across all markets, but, as Powell noted, the crypto market has been hit the hardest.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2025
  • OpenAI said the new model features a broader knowledge base, better emotional intelligence and improved contextual understanding, and supposedly has fewer hallucinations— referring to when AI models produce inaccurate or misleading results.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Scatological.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scatological. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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