(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!”).
Orgiastic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(2) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
(3) The effect of this procedure is to increase both excitatory and orgiastic capabilities.
(4) After all, without witnessing God's carcinogenic judgment rain down upon the lotharios of this world once in a while, how could we possibly stop our children from descending into chaotic, amoral rabbles of orgiastic anarchy?
(5) The Bacchus title relates to a recurring theme in his work: the red is the colour of both blood and wine, an echo of the orgiastic rites of the god's worshippers.
(6) Flowers is the definitive Kemp work: orgiastic, violent, teetering constantly on the verge of bathos, and thoroughly homosexual.
(7) However, the Dionysiac celebrants at this orgiastic 60s happening aren't beautiful hippies, but late-middle-aged suburbanites.
(8) By conflating the victims of serial sexual predators with enthusiastic participants in "a heaving carnival of orgiastic sex", he is implying that the victims of these criminals were actively complicit in their own abuse.
(9) A full blast of pleasure, of orgiastic potency, would enable you to see you'd been living badly, or not, according to your nature.