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

That photograph, when seen on the gallery wall, potently conveys the quandary of a man, aging but still vigorous, who has been consigned to pampered desuetude in his Palm Desert retirement.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 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

On that day the tap-root of materialism was wounded, and materialism itself has been an invalid of increasing languor and desuetude ever since.

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood