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debauchery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
| Type of | revel, revelry |
| Derivation | debauch |
Examples of debauchery
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Qusayr Amra perfectly expressed al-Walid's alleged love of debauchery and power.
From the online.wsj.com
Patrick's Day riot, UAlbany hardly needs to segue from debauchery to bacchanalia.
From the timesunion.com
Consumed by a heady debauchery, it had become little more than a tourist trap.
From the telegraph.co.uk
What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip?
From the time.com
Usually, there is too much sin or debauchery and the time has come to start again.
From the guardian.co.uk
Euan Ferguson finds him in Cork, spilling the beans on his life of debauchery.
From the guardian.co.uk
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is four days of insane costumes, dancing and debauchery.
From the forbes.com
The Vegas segment involves variations on the theme of humiliating debauchery.
From the usatoday.com
Vancouver isn't known for nighttime debauchery, thanks partly to tough liquor laws.
From the post-gazette.com
- Orgy: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- (debauched) unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- Debauchery is a death 'n' roll band from Stuttgart, Germany.
- Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition; Seduction from duty
- (debauched) corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent
- (debaucherous) Excessively indulgent in sensual pleasures
- (debauched) The verb debauch, meaning to lead away from virtue or excellence, to corrupt by sensuality or intemperance, or to seduce from chastity, is of French origin (of course), and is derived from the same root as the word "balk," or horizontal support beam. ...
- Extreme indulgence of one's appetites, especially for sensual pleasure.
- Debauchery is extreme form of immorality. It is an extreme form of indulgence in things that give person sensual pleasure. Depravity, Decadence, Dissipation and Dissolution are a few High Frequency Synonyms of the word. Note them all in your book. All the five words are equally important for GRE.
