degringolade

Together they team up to prevent the evil Leopold Kamptulicon carrying out his devious plan to set free the lurids living in the tar pit outside the city of Degringolade.

Months later came the dégringolade, when sterling was driven out of the European exchange rate mechanism.

How perfectly true to life, subsequently, is the rapid dégringolade of this passion under the gnawing curse of the homeless, workless, purposeless existence which little by little disunites the lovers!

But the phlegmatic Englishman won't lead in that dégringolade.'

The news from Europe is to my ignorant ideas désolant, a dégringolade back into military despotism, which would have excited indignation with us in our fathers’ days, I think.