decrepitude

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They asked: "How do we ethically justify forcing these bodies to continue to exist in decrepitude?"

From BBC • May 13, 2025

Even for classic car enthusiasts, there’s a point of extreme decrepitude that precludes restoration but ignites reimagination.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

Nor do you have to be a man, though Letts now seems to be our leading contender for bard of male moral decrepitude.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021

Even in her later years, when she could no longer get out of bed, it seemed that she was simply defeated by decrepitude, but no one discovered that she was blind.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez