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He can sketch a character lightly, with only a half turn and a flutter of his lashes, or debauch himself in orgies of gesture and expression.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

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

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2016

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We alone are to blame that he debauches courts, that he blinds executives, and that he buys legislatures!

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

That sort of bad art is thin gruel compared to really bad art: works that are ethically perverse, immoral or debauched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

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

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

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

Among other charges brought against him, Washington was accused of "debauching the country" and "seeking a crown," "and all the while passing himself off as an honest man."

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark

They did everything but that, making themselves at home in her house, unbidden and hated guests, debauching her maidservants, and consuming her provisions by wholesale.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck