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Zoe Saldaña as Rita, a jaded defense attorney for white-collar criminals, is writing her closing argument, asking the jury to exonerate her client, a corrupt bureaucrat accused of pushing his wife off a balcony.Paula Aceves, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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In their telling, the fraud blamed on Dorje Chang was, in fact, pulled off by one of his corrupt former disciples.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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They’re brought back to life by their child, a genderqueer doll called Glen/Glenda, and immediately launch into more depraved violence, kidnapping Jennifer Tilly and Redman (themselves) to transfer their consciousness into their bodies.Rory Doherty, Vulture, 28 June 2024
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Horror films still offer a path to profitability on low budgets that no other genre can claim, which is why even the most squeamish filmmakers should celebrate the remarkable box-office success demonstrated by Damien Leone’s gory saga of the depraved Art the Clown.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
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Or have his years in finance scrambled his brain and turned him into a degenerate gambler, both at the office and outside it?Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
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The result is a book laden with put-downs of the English working class, who are cast in eugenicist terms as a degenerate race.Lennard J. Davis, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
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Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall.Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
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But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause.Maurice Samuels / Made by History, TIME, 21 May 2024
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All but one of those patients had been exposed to sick cattle or poultry on farms.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Russell’s Mitch was as in touch with his animal needs as with his guilty concern for his sick mother.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2015
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But life back then was pretty sketchy and precarious even without pestilential rats running around, unbound.Scott LaFee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
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Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses.William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
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In Posobiec’s perverted presentation, children were eaten as well as raped.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
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Academic opportunists the past week showed once more how pernicious, naïve misinformation can catch fire and consume the truth, especially when dressed with the veneer of academic credibility.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
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Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
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“Scrofulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrofulous. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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