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debauchery
/dɪˈbɔ.t͡ʃə.ɹi/
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What does debauchery mean?
noun
- An excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous and immoral activities; involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) A seduction from duty.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈbɔ.t͡ʃə.ɹi/
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The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
According to Mussetistes, it was thanks to George Sand that the young poet was reduced to the despair which drove him to debauchery.
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This ball was held in a big dance hall, and was one of the occasions when the city’s powers of debauchery gave themselves up to madness.
The Boccaneri seems to be one of those ladies who refine so much upon debauchery as to make even matrimony enter into their scheme of profligacy.
Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.