debauch
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“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 standout was beef stroganoff, a debauch of heavy cream.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 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
Good ideas are kept out of circulation because they are concealed by highbrow language, whereas lowbrow journalism debauches American speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inflation, of course, debauches a currency by reducing its purchasing power.
From Time Magazine Archive
The immeasurable genius of the elder civilisations of the Orient was there legibly written, and recalled the granite and brick debauches of Egypt and Assyria.
From King Candaules by Lafcadio Hearn
The dissolute, debauched Lucius might have proved a challenge for Marcus in the long run, but illness carried him off after eight years in power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
From their earliest shared Lunchables through debauched bachelorette parties right up to the Golden Girls years, women bond with intensity.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025
Lee currently lives a life that appears antithetical to her debauched teen years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
It sees the capital's Playhouse Theatre transformed into the debauched Kit Kat Club of Weimar Berlin.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
Horrible, debauched, mouth limp and cracked, loose against the teeth as an ancient dog’s.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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
His novel is a grotesque, exciting and impudent tale of student ribaldry, army debauching and mystic romance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
What is meant is that such things as comic supplements, at once stupid, silly, and debauching to both the intellectual and the artistic tastes, should be kept from all boys.
From Literature for Children by Orton Lowe
He was fascinated by the sight of men, women and children engaged in a wild and, perhaps, a debauching experiment.
From Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun
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