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
Eventually, though, the canals were filled in, the amusement attractions waxed and waned, the housing fell into decrepitude or got plowed under for bigger and better.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
Even for classic car enthusiasts, there’s a point of extreme decrepitude that precludes restoration but ignites reimagination.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023
“Don’t you think it should cost less to be alive?” he bursts out at one point, seemingly at random, as if the decrepitude around him has stirred much larger anxieties.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
Other than these small businesses, there are more shingled houses, the same shape and size and in the same state of mild decrepitude, painted mint, or lilac, or powder blue.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing decrepitude
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The Namesake
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