Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Debauched; depraved: Describes a person, behavior, or moral state that is extremely corrupt, dissolute, and marked by a descent into vice and sensual pleasure.
   • Decadent; rotten: Describes customs, practices, or a social atmosphere that is morally corrupt, degenerate, and in a state of decay.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Lối sống của hắn ta vô cùng đồi bại. (His lifestyle is utterly debauched.)
  • Xã hội ấy bị coi là có những tục lệ đồi bại. (That society is considered to have depraved customs.)
  • Bộ phim vạch trần giới thượng lưu đồi bại. (The film exposes the depraved upper class.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in formal or literary contexts to describe severe moral corruption in individuals or societal norms. It implies a profound fall from a previous state of goodness or propriety.

Variants and Related Words

• Đồi phong bại tục (idiomatic phrase): Decadent customs and corrupt morals; a phrase describing a society where traditions and morals have become degenerate.
  • Thời kỳ đó được miêu tả là thời kỳ đồi phong bại tục. (That era is described as a time of decadent customs and corrupt morals.)

Synonyms

• Depraved: Having been corrupted in a moral sense.
• Debauched: Indulging in sensual pleasures to a harmful degree.
• Degenerate: Having lost qualities that are good and desirable.
• Corrupt: Willing to act dishonestly or immorally.

Related Idioms

• Đồi phong bại tục: See 'Variants and Related Words'. This is the primary fixed idiom containing the word.

adj

1. Debauched; depraved