desuetude

Example Sentences

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Certainly we must now be set on a path to mental decay and desuetude.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

A very few people, not appearing to be up to much, sat far apart at desks in a dimly lighted panorama of desuetude.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2018

Meaning when you have a statute that hasn't been enforced in 215 years, there's a concept in the law called desuetude.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2017

When first seen, Tom Scutt’s grand salon has a look of cobwebbed desuetude, with its peeling walls and furniture sheathed in dusty plastic.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016

It manifests also some want of a disposition to co-operate in an important public institution, unhappily now fallen into desuetude.

From Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures by Hunter, Joseph