(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 .
(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.
Hedonistic
Definition:
(a.) Same as Hedonic, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a city where liberal 19th-century culture was menaced by anti-semitic populist politics - where Adolf Hitler wandered round bitterly nursing a sense of thwarted genius - the middle class escaped into hedonistic dreams, and invented modern sexuality.
(2) The often hedonistic vibe has prompted criticism of the fair, including accusations that it attracts scenesters with little real interest in contemporary art.
(3) Nutt himself has tried "a bit of cannabis, and speed once or twice", but the only drug he consumes now is alcohol, making him neither, as he keeps pointing out, a prohibitionist nor a hedonist.
(4) But clearly hedonistic consciousness is capable of overcoming our biological programming.
(5) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
(6) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
(7) His Asylum debut, Warren Zevon (1976), bristled with west coast rock deities - including Glenn Frey and Don Henley, of the Eagles, and Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, from Fleetwood Mac - though he seemed hell-bent on sabotaging the hedonistic myth of the golden state.
(8) Moir also called for "the truth" to emerge "about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death" and said: "Once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see".
(9) Karl and I would get to keep our little unit intact, and our hedonistic lifestyle, while still having a child: a part-time child.
(10) Bell, appointed chairman of the commission, stressed the problems of a post-industrial economy, modern society's technocratic structure versus its hedonistic culture and the increasingly unrealistic levels of public and private expectations.
(11) Photograph: Alamy Bowie’s relationship with his wife had been disintegrating under the pressures of success and the couple’s hedonistic, promiscuous lifestyle, and they would divorce in 1980.
(12) (Nostalgic songs score equally with the purely hedonistic songs on positive feelings evoked, but the nostalgic songs also score much higher on sadness.)
(13) A hedonist In his autumn, romance lightly worn, And now first signs of tristesse , Faint strains of a hunting horn.
(14) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
(15) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(16) It now has branches in London and New York, but this vast Dublin brewpub (with possibly the longest bar in the city) is the nerve centre for craft ales in the hedonistic Temple Bar neighbourhood.
(17) This was New York's last golden clubbing period before gentrification and Mayor Giuliani tore out its hedonistic soul… Frankie provided the soundtrack.
(18) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(19) It's no longer a hedonistic drug taken in nightclubs.
(20) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.