decadent
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No doubt some of the older players are, in the nicest possible sense, a bunch of pigeon-chested decadents eking out their demotivating A-list contracts.
From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2020
Its focus is 1901, the year 19-year-old Picasso rocked up in fin de siècle Paris, hungrily devoured the styles of Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Degas, and set about painting Moulin Rouge decadents.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013
Wilde knew his Swinburne as well as the French decadents who followed in Baudelaire's wake.
From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2010
Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates the young French decadents.
From Time Magazine Archive
And perhaps most unusual in the context of Hampden—where pseudo-intellects and teenage decadents abounded, and where black clothing was de rigueur—they liked to wear pale clothes, particularly white.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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