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debauchery
[ dih-baw-chuh-ree ]
noun
- excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.
- Archaic. seduction from duty, allegiance, or virtue.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of debauchery1
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Example Sentences
They were found guilty of practicing habitual debauchery and inciting others to sexual deviance because of the footage.
She was not impressed by the drunken debauchery at the election-return party.
As for pictures of this controlled debauchery, no such luck.
The emperor Nero—known for his debauchery apparently collected the things.
But only in recent years have athletes begun to divulge lurid details of Olympic sexcapades and debauchery.
All this was set down to the debauchery of a rich old man, and everything was believed except the truth.
The man was perfectly sincere, and many a rough fellow owed his conversion from drink and debauchery to 'Appy 'Arry.
Futteh Khan, in fact, governed the kingdom under the designation of vizier, while Mahmood abandoned himself to debauchery.
In his early years he dissipated almost all his patrimony in libertinism and debauchery.
She said that she had been persecuted by John Bates, then sinking into debauchery, and that your brother had protected her.
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