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The house has fallen into decrepitude.
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The kills here are as elaborate as in the first outing and the depictions of moral decrepitude are so on target at times you all but want to stand up and cheer when the evildoers get served their comeuppance.
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In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?
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The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.
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Literary Hub, 26 Mar. 2026
The kills here are as elaborate as in the first outing and the depictions of moral decrepitude are so on target at times you all but want to stand up and cheer when the evildoers get served their comeuppance.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2026
In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.
—Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Decrepitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decrepitude. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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decrepitude
noun
de·crep·i·tude
di-ˈkrep-ə-ˌt(y)üd 
: the quality or state of being decrepit : loss of strength or sturdiness especially from old age
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