decrepitude

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They asked: "How do we ethically justify forcing these bodies to continue to exist in decrepitude?"

From BBC • May 13, 2025

Many famous defendants have aimed for respectability, maturity, wide-eyed innocence or even pitiful decrepitude on their days in court.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

People bought there, people built there, and when the real estate company folded, the sign that was meant to stand for 18 months soldiered on into decrepitude for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

On Tuesday, one of the main buildings on the property was demolished, after a devastating fire delivered the killing blow following decades of decrepitude and abandonment.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022

It was then that it occurred to her that her clumsiness was not the first victory of decrepitude and darkness but a sentence passed by time.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez