Decrepitude

The most apropos description of this cycle of inherent decrepitude is perhaps the Yiddish word schlock, meaning something "cheap, shoddy, or inferior." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alas, no one understands that the world is sinking on the ocean of Time that is so very deep and that is infested with those huge crocodiles called decrepitude and death. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The last two stages, old age — up to seventy years — and the remaining years of very old age or "decrepitude," are the periods in life in which people "have very weak natural heat [and] the superfluities increase." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here, "decrepitude" means that things are torn away from "world," from a richer network of meaningfulness, and are instead substitutable, indifferent items in the technological ordering of reality. ❋ Enowning (2008)

They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

As life in the retirement community unfolds, Herb grumbles about his "decrepitude" and wants to get an office to start working part-time again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy not to mention moral decrepitude. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tenor Robert Brubaker handled Mao's high tessitura impeccably, creating an indelible image of a ruthless, wily fighter, despite his age and decrepitude. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)

My whole body was overwhelmed with persistent fatigue and decrepitude. ❋ Iris Erlingsdottir (2010)

The magazine's unsigned piece examines international studies corroborating that, far from being an inexorable slide into emotional decrepitude, people experience "the U-Bend of Life." ❋ Paul Kleyman (2011)

Old, expensive rugs and drapes in some late stage of decrepitude, their worn, exhausted fibers a molecular stage above disintegration. ❋ Brad Watson (2010)

Sometimes I think that if Juni knew women in more wholesome circumstances than in their own decrepitude that she would be all right. ❋ Ann Bogle (2010)

One may rationally fear illness and pain and increasing decrepitude or the dreaded dementia; but one should not fear death. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Pontiac Silverdome, burdened with debts and decrepitude, had been budgeted for sale at $7 million; a previous EFM sold it off for $583,000. ❋ Rev. Jesse Jackson (2011)

As I [approach] my fiftieth birthday, it becomes [harder] to [fend off] decrepitude. ❋ Patlas (2008)

[Whazza] matter with that dude? Isn't he a scientist? He looks like he's [lost the will to live]... Oh, he's got Accelerated Decrepitude just like almost every other sane intelligent person around here; hopefully he'll recover after the [Mueller] Report is issued... ❋ YAWA (2019)

Hey man [what is wrong with me]?!?!?! Not even that [wild ass] HOT red head could get me hard last night. I must be [getting old] or something... No man it was all that tequila you drank. Yea but she was SO HOT... and she sat on my face for a half hour and nothing... Wow dude you must have penile decrepitude setting in. ❋ Word Jockey (2013)