debauchery
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“I had planned on having a wonderful time, get lost in the debauchery, degeneracy, but I discovered something else, deeper, more profound.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
De Palma paints pictures that don’t conflict so much as they coexist, like two sides of a coin — purity and debauchery, the real, politically sanctioned currencies of this country — fresh from the U.S.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Something a little more wholesome than the debauchery of downtown,” says John Ingram, chairman of the Ingram Industries conglomerate and owner of the pro-soccer team Nashville SC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Some students were saved from debauchery when school officials colored in a pair of pants on the goblin.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Dubbed the nation’s most eligible bachelor, Vanderbilt eschewed the debauchery that would have tempted other men fresh out of their teens and into a bottomless bank account.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
The U.S. is still a long way from the rugged debaucheries of Restoration England or the perfumed corruption of the Gallant Century in France.
From Time Magazine Archive
The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the guardian of Soviet morality, junior grade, the Communist Party youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda frequently berates students for hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the deadly bewilderments and debaucheries of recent history have shown, this problem is enough to tax to the limit the minds and energies that would propose to solve it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The family belonged to the middle-classes, and despised the debaucheries of the higher and lower orders of the people.
From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by David W. Bartlett
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