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Noun
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their universe of sycophants who worship wickedness can’t be changed by continues eye contact.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025 -
May God bless the entire Trump administration with swift repentance from this wickedness.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Lex is a tech billionaire very much in the Musk/Zuckerberg mode, but Hoult gives him sufficient ambiguity to blur the lines of his villainy between someone genuinely concerned about humankind in thrall to an alien and someone who just wants absolute power at any price.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
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Cosby’s good guys do things that outpace the rankest villainy in the work of other crime writers.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
8 July 2025
Noun
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So far, there's nothing to indicate any criminality Carl DeFazio, formerly of the NYPD, was brought on as the private investigator in the case.—
July 5,
CBS News,
5 July 2025
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These relationships, the defense team argued, were toxic and perhaps abusive, but failed to meet the government's standards of federal criminality.—
Anastasia Tsioulcas,
NPR,
2 July 2025
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“Rottenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rottenness. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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