scrofulous

adjective

Definition of scrofulousnext
as in debased

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrofulous
  1. corrupt
  2. depraved
  3. degenerate
  4. dissolute
  5. sick
  6. pestilential
  7. perverted
  8. pernicious
Adjective
  • The essential modern text is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that equates money with speech, resulting in an ever more corrupt system of campaign finance.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The only alternative to withdrawal was defending a pathetically inept and corrupt government in Kabul until the sun exploded, which was really no alternative at all.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • The catalyzing incident here is the disappearance of a teen girl, which of course turns into a much larger investigation of more widespread and depraved criminality, as these cases always do on TV.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The depravity of human greed at its most despicable and depraved on full display.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of depraved
Adjective
  • There was alarm at the prospect of hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning to the U.S. with such degenerate experience under their belts, and presumably spreading these habits among hitherto innocent American wives.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Ammon did appear tempted to talk the walk in Portland, to become the Mormon cowboy philosopher king wandering a degenerate realm of an ailing Republic, but by now time was in extremely short supply.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of degenerate
Adjective
  • The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Definition of dissolute
Adjective
  • And cats everywhere are getting sick from the virus.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • On December 18, the CDC announced that the first severe H5N1 case in a human had been detected, which is thought to have been caught after exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of sick
Adjective
  • Here a book worth considering is ‘From third world to first’ - Lee Kwan Yew's first person story of transforming Singapore from a pestilential swamp into a metropolis.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of pestilential
Adjective
  • But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 5 July 2024
  • Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of perverted
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of pernicious
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