What's the difference between debauchery and decadence?

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.

Decadence


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Decadency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (2) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (4) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (5) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
  • (6) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (7) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (8) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (9) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (10) Gliomas of the pregeniculate anterior visual pathways comprise about 5% of all intracranial tumors that occur in the first decade of life.
  • (11) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
  • (12) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
  • (13) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (14) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
  • (15) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
  • (16) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
  • (17) During the last decade, clinical studies with immunotherapy in recurrent gliomas have been added to the therapeutic regimens.
  • (18) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (19) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
  • (20) But for decades now there has been a systematic undermining of it [the NHS’s] core values.