Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Depraved, debauched: Describes a person or their behavior as morally corrupt, having sunk into vice, and indulging excessively in sensual pleasures, often with a loss of moral principles.
   • Dissolute: Characterized by a lack of moral restraint, especially in sexual conduct; leading a life of excessive indulgence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Anh ta dần trở thành một con người trụy lạc. (He gradually became a depraved man.)
  • Cuộc sống trụy lạc của hắn khiến gia đình xấu hổ. (His debauched life brought shame to his family.)
  • Những bộ phim đó miêu tả lối sống trụy lạc. (Those films depict a dissolute lifestyle.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "trụy lạc" often carries a strong moral judgment and is used in formal or literary contexts to condemn severe moral decay. It implies a fall from a previous state of grace or propriety.

Variants and Related Words

• Sa ngã (v): to fall, to degenerate. Often describes the process leading to a state of being "trụy lạc".

  • Nhiều thanh niên dễ sa ngã trước cám dỗ. (Many young people easily fall into temptation.)

• Đồi trụy (adj): degenerate, perverted. A closely related synonym, often used interchangeably with "trụy lạc", sometimes with an even stronger connotation of perversion.

  • Những tư tưởng đồi trụy. (Degenerate ideas.)

Synonyms

• Debauched: Indulging in sensual pleasures to a harmful degree.
• Depraved: Morally corrupt; wicked.
• Dissolute: Lax in morals; licentious.
• Licentious: Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Sống trụy lạc: to live a debauched/dissolute life.

  • Hắn sống trụy lạc cho đến hết đời. (He lived a debauched life until the end.)

• Con đường trụy lạc: the path of depravity.

  • Cậu ấy đã bước vào con đường trụy lạc. (He embarked on the path of depravity.)

adj

1. depraved, debauched