debauch

Example Sentences

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The league is an analgesic we just can’t quit, no matter how debauched it can be.

From Washington Post

When their weird landlady Beatrice seems to be plagiarizing the young women’s lives for her pulp novels, they put on debauched parties to control the narrative.

From Washington Post

"I guess it should be disgusting – rich, debauched, famous people just f**king on a boat," says Gauthier's ex-wife Erica, played by Taylor Schilling, "but it's . . . it's . . . it's . . . it's, like . . . super wholesome. It's . . . romantic."

From Salon

“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency,” John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1919 in “The Economic Consequences of the Peace.”

From New York Times

While his bandmates cultivated an attitude of debauched insouciance, Watts, the band’s drummer since 1963, kept a quiet, even glum, public persona.

From New York Times