What's the difference between bacchanalian and debauchery?

Bacchanalian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
  • (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) News reports and isolated video clips have made Trump’s rallies seem like bacchanalian proto-fascist white power orgies, fuelled by bald racism, pseudo-Nazi salutes and the imminent threat of violence toward any detractors.
  • (2) And Spencer Jones too, as a bacchanalian health and safety officer.
  • (3) Not that I have anything like the same vocal ability, but the more you have that personal connection and people can feel your sincerity… You know, dance music isn’t just escapism; at best it’s always been about including the difficulties and challenges of life rather than just being this utopian, bacchanalian zone.” Ten hours later, as the sun is almost on its way back up, Dan underlines his point by wrapping up his headline DJ set with Cloud One’s plaintive disco stomper Don’t Let My Rainbow Pass Me By (“I’ve waited so long for sunshine… don’t let this chance go by!”).

Debauchery


Definition:

  • (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
  • (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because the legal interpretation of terms like “debauchery” or “public indecency” is so broad, sentences are often maximised by judges who “stack” similarly-worded offences.
  • (2) Such as: “Ted Cruz sent shockwaves through the Republican Party today when he announced he would endorse Donald Trump for President, but only if the GOP nominee would publicly support a ban on masturbation , (saying) without ‘swift action … the country was doomed to slide down a slippery slope of debauchery and self-satisfaction’.” Snopes sourced this to a site that mimicked ABC News to lure clicks to an underlying malware site, generating advertising revenue.
  • (3) The rules are simple – there are none.” Cameron biography: Ashcroft makes new debauchery claims about student days Read more The journalist Danny Kemp went to the Piers Gaveston ball in summer 1995.
  • (4) Hollywood's Sunset Strip is supposed to be a synonym for debauchery and glamour.
  • (5) It is a problem brought from outside, from the EU," said Alexandre Galdava, an Orthodox priest at the Church of Archangel Michael in Tbilisi, who preaches that being gay is "a sexual choice based on debauchery".
  • (6) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
  • (7) Debauchery Stratton Oakmont's profits fund a bacchanal: cars, drugs, women who are exactly as disposable as the cars and drugs, and antics that veer from Jackass territory into hazing rituals.
  • (8) It's 99 pages of debauchery and one page of, 'Let's repair this.'
  • (9) A poll taken in July found 32% of Russians saw homosexuality as "a sickness or the result of a psychological trauma" – 43% saw it as "debauchery or a bad habit".
  • (10) The whole thing really seemed like not-terribly-debauched public schoolboys’ idea of debauchery.” The broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer went to Piers Gaveston parties in 1989-91.
  • (11) Twenty-six men accused of committing debauchery in a Cairo bathhouse have been found innocent, in an unexpected move that follows a year-long crackdown on gay people in Egypt .
  • (12) Oh, fame, money, degeneracy, debauchery, bottoming out,” says Moby.
  • (13) Despite the fact that college men are also engaged in this debauchery, the camera lingers on the females.
  • (14) But in the late 1990s, the police stepped up the use of two old laws – a 1950 anti-prostitution law and a 1961 law against “debauchery” – to arrest and charge the practising LGBT community.
  • (15) The MP told the authors Cameron attended a dining club called Piers Gaveston, known for its debauchery and named after the lover of Edward II, as well as being part of the Bullingdon drinking club, which was notorious for trashing rooms.
  • (16) That may sound relatively tame, but apparently the real debauchery was conducted out of view of the camera.
  • (17) Cameron biography: Ashcroft makes new debauchery claims about student days Read more If Cameron does get a pass this will not be an entirely bad thing.
  • (18) Between the first and second world wars, insanity was brought on by debauchery, money and women.
  • (19) Tom had hoped for some on-the-road debauchery, but soon discovered he'd got the wrong band.
  • (20) Cameron biography: Ashcroft makes new debauchery claims about student days Read more Twitter is, of course, in spasms of ecstasy.