tooth decay

Political Order and Political Decay Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) How are strong democratic states created?

For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.

The General in command of the station was a feeble old man, suffering from senile decay.

It will hold tenaciously there, the last of its race, days after the decay of its greener and more healthy-looking mates.

The decay and ruin of nearly all the "old families" in Ireland are among the penalties of disregarding it.

The old dining-hall had shared in the general decay, and been shorn of all its ancient honours.

It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.