decadence
Example Sentences
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For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.
Now he faces the merely gargantuan task of propelling his country out of “100 years of decadence,” to quote his own phrase.
From Barron's
Perhaps as a rebellion against her partner’s darkness and decadence, Birkin developed a personal style that exuded lightness, naturalness and relatable elegance.
Cooper is very much alive and enjoying a modest and well-deserved decadence.
From Los Angeles Times
TJ’s Tiniest Chocolate Chip Cookies may be “tiny,” but they certainly don’t skimp on decadence and chocolate chips.
From Salon
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