as in shamelessness
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Getty Images These extremely high public debt burdens are not due to fiscal profligacy.Courtney Lindsay, WIRED, 13 July 2024
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Weakness in French sovereign bonds has spilled over to Italy — Europe’s original poster child for fiscal profligacy.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
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The fear of government corruption is also no surprise—this concern has topped the university’s list every year since 2015.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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Freedom Way directed by Afolabi Olalekan Nigeria A ride-sharing app is exactly what chaotic Lagos needs, but both the young engineers who set it up and the customers who depend on it have to deal with corruption, police violence and extortion.Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
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Trump used to brag about his closeness with Combs, but that hasn’t stopped him and his surrogates from continuing to tag Democrats as the party of celebrity decadence.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2024
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Get the Recipe 26 of 40 Lump Crab Mornay This dip is decadence in a dish.Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
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But land degradation and deforestation isn't just a concern for tropical countries.Andrew Freedman, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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These practices consume fossil fuel, water, and topsoil at unsustainable rates and contribute to numerous forms of environmental degradation and soil depletion, diminishing biodiversity.Judith Magyar, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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And this cultural extortion, rooted in naïve ghetto socialism — a perversion of the civil-rights heritage — plants a worrisome notion.Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
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It’s also wrapped in a breathable cover that helps with heat dissipation.Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
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In September, the Brown family patriarch reflected on his regrets following the dissipation of his marriages.Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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Because their original criminality did not have consequences.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
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There is a sense that in criminality, that there is not a punishment. ...Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Venality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venality. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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