decrepitude

He has one year left in his term to right the ship before cementing a legacy as the governor who sailed the system into decrepitude.

Eventually, though, the canals were filled in, the amusement attractions waxed and waned, the housing fell into decrepitude or got plowed under for bigger and better.

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

For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.

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.