debauch
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When the god of drunkenness, debauch and theater comes to town, expect a party.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
“I did really debauch myself to achieve a visual at the time” is how he remembers it.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2016
We’ve not had a debasement of the currency, a debauch of the exchange rate, so those fears and warnings aren’t all that well founded.
From Forbes ● Feb. 13, 2015
Lastly, the Gabfest crew takes a look at Google’s new smartphone for your face, Google Glass: Will it extend our human powers or finally debauch them for good?
From Slate ● May 22, 2013
The music, the anthem of Saturday night debauch, filtered to them through the jail stones that now enveloped them, isolated them with Junior Palmer.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Thus the devil thrives in proportion, is always ready to enrich the rich man with ruin, the wise man with folly, the beautiful woman with degradation, the kind, average man with debauches of savagery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Other practically sure signs of neurosis: fear of not being able to draw a deep breath, burning in the abdomen, repeated belching, stomachaches after "emotional debauches," "distresses that come before breakfast."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Inflation, of course, debauches a currency by reducing its purchasing power.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In fact, his remorseful recovery from his debauches had become her occasion for pouring out upon him the mother in her.
From The Readjustment by Will Irwin
The dissolute, debauched Lucius might have proved a challenge for Marcus in the long run, but illness carried him off after eight years in power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Sylvanian Families has become embroiled in a legal battle with a TikTok creator who makes comedic videos of the children's toys in dark and debauched storylines.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
As the manager of Guns N’ Roses during the band’s debauched heyday, Alan Niven has no shortage of colorful stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
From their earliest shared Lunchables through debauched bachelorette parties right up to the Golden Girls years, women bond with intensity.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025
“You are meant to be working separately, not in this...this debauched juxtaposition. I have warned you about collaborating, it is not the proper way to exhibit your skills.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Germany, haunted by the experience of hyperinflation in 1923 and after World War Two, is deeply fearful of debauching the central bank by printing money to lend to governments.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2011
His novel is a grotesque, exciting and impudent tale of student ribaldry, army debauching and mystic romance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The graver peril is that the precious-metals fever will sap more and more confidence in paper money, debauching its value.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These men had worked together too long for Moore not to feel a personal pride in his work of debauching a Legislature.
From A Man of Two Countries by Colista M. Dowling
For, neither his dangerous intrigues in debauching the soldiery, nor his abandoning the province to the most profligate and rapacious, nor even his insults to Germanicus, were to be denied.
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Thomas Gordon
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