debauch

“I did really debauch myself to achieve a visual at the time” is how he remembers it.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2016

The book has a yearning quality and a sweetness that prevent it from being a mere time capsule or Henry Miller-like debauch.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

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

The music, the anthem of Saturday night debauch, filtered to them through the jail stones that now enveloped them, isolated them with Junior Palmer.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Thus the devil thrives in proportion, is always ready to enrich the rich man with ruin, the wise man with folly, the beautiful woman with degradation, the kind, average man with debauches of savagery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Good ideas are kept out of circulation because they are concealed by highbrow language, whereas lowbrow journalism debauches American speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other practically sure signs of neurosis: fear of not being able to draw a deep breath, burning in the abdomen, repeated belching, stomachaches after "emotional debauches," "distresses that come before breakfast."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hitherto few perhaps had divined in the unprincipled adventurer, who shared in the debauches of the imperial drunkard, the talents of a born ruler.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

It became one of the key images in the promotion of her Brat album, matching the the music's debauched swagger and emotional candour.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The cinematic language suggests that Burning Man may be debauched, pointless and a massive indulgence, but that it also champions decadence in pursuit of freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Firstman stars as Peter, a debauched millennial aging out of a New York scene that never cared about him as a person in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and mercifully fictional P.D.Q.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Some of the Folk are so still I worry that they have debauched themselves into death.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Germany, haunted by the experience of hyperinflation in 1923 and after World War Two, is deeply fearful of debauching the central bank by printing money to lend to governments.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2011

The graver peril is that the precious-metals fever will sap more and more confidence in paper money, debauching its value.

From Time Magazine Archive

His novel is a grotesque, exciting and impudent tale of student ribaldry, army debauching and mystic romance.

From Time Magazine Archive

I make few visits, nor go to levees; my only debauching is sitting late where I dine, if I like the company.

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

Before them was a narrow lane debauching from the turnpike.

From Southern Lights and Shadows by William Dean Howells