debauch
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Heiner Müller, the experimental German playwright who specialized in grimly absurdist Shakespeare rewrites, refashioned “Titus Andronicus” as a postmodern, postcolonial debauch.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 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
All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous debauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves, bones, and skin.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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