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debauchery

[dih-baw-chuh-ree] / dɪˈbɔ tʃə ri /


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Perhaps no representation of nightlife — other than Studio 54’s dance floor debauchery — got the same kind of media attention that the velvet roped, VIP-driven era of the early 2000s in Los Angeles did.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 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

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

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 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 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

We now see humanity tricked out in rich attire and staggering to its doom through general debaucheries.

From Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank




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