debauched

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Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Morally corrupt or dissolute: Describes a person or their behavior as excessively indulgent in sensual pleasures, especially those considered immoral or harmful, showing a lack of restraint and disregard for conventional standards of morality.
    • Degraded through excessive indulgence: Implies a state of decline or corruption resulting from a life of extreme hedonism and vice.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The novel portrays a debauched nobleman who spends his fortune on wine and gambling.
    • After years of debauched living, his health was completely ruined.
    • The historian described the emperor's court as notoriously debauched.
Advanced Usage
  • "debauched lifestyle": A way of life characterized by excessive indulgence in physical pleasures and vices.
    • He abandoned his debauched lifestyle after a profound personal crisis.
  • "debauched revelry": Wild, unrestrained, and immoral merrymaking or celebration.
    • The tales spoke of ancient festivals that descended into debauched revelry.
Variants and Related Words
  • Debauchery (noun): Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; extreme intemperance.
    • The party was an orgy of sheer debauchery.
  • Debauch (verb, formal/literary): To corrupt morally; to seduce from virtue or excellence.
    • The power and wealth of the city seemed to debauch its once-honorable leaders.
Synonyms
  • Dissolute: Lax in morals; licentious.
  • Depraved: Morally corrupt; perverted.
  • Degenerate: Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
  • Profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources; licentious; dissolute.
  • Rakish: Dashingly stylish and unconventional, often with connotations of slight moral disrepute.
Antonyms
  • Virtuous: Having or showing high moral standards.
  • Upright: Strictly honorable or honest.
  • Ascetic: Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
  • Abstemious: Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking.
Related Idioms and Phrases
  • "A life of debauchery": A common phrase describing a sustained period of immoral and excessive indulgence.
    • The biography detailed the rock star's life of debauchery in the 1970s.
  • "To lead someone into debauchery": To corrupt someone or lead them into a dissolute lifestyle.
    • He was accused of leading the young prince into debauchery.
Adjective
  1. unrestrained by convention or morality
    • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
    • deplorably dissipated and degraded
    • riotous living
    • fast women

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