orgy
wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
any actions or proceedings marked by unbridled indulgence of passions: an orgy of killing.
orgies, (in ancient Greece) esoteric religious rituals, especially in the worship of Demeter or Dionysus, characterized in later times by wild dancing, singing, and drinking.
Informal. a boisterous, rowdy party.
Origin of orgy
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How to use orgy in a sentence
Cawthorn angered his congressional colleagues with his salacious orgy comment, and the lingerie photos were a particularly damaging surprise for voters, experts say, released less than a month before the primary.
Allegations were even thrown around that the house was the site of an orgy or two.
Inside the Little Green House on K Street, D.C.’s Most Scandalous Private Club | Allison McNearney | February 27, 2022 | The Daily BeastThe NRF insists that they’re OK with the mandate in the abstract, but that they would prefer it start in February, after the holiday season and the yearly orgy of shopping it creates.
Indeed, Bannon, whose film Occupy Unmasked claimed to expose an orgy of criminality at the heart of the protest, nevertheless took up positions about the abandonment of the working class that mirrored the movement’s tone.
Some Say Occupy Wall Street Did Nothing. It Changed Us More Than We Think | James A. Anderson | November 15, 2021 | TimeBeginning in the 1990s, Democrats and Republicans showered benefits on the financial sector, paving the way for an orgy of subprime lending and financial engineering that inflated housing prices to dizzying heights.
In honor of A Good Old Fashioned orgy, in theaters Friday, we offer the best movie group-sex scenes.
Shame, Eyes Wide Shut, American Psycho & Hollywood's Best Orgy Scenes | Marlow Stern | September 1, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe New Orleans orgy started while a local radio station was broadcasting some of this new dance-music.
Hunter Patrol | Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuireorgy, or′ji, n. any drunken or riotous rite or revelry, esp.
The orgy is famous for the dash and abandon with which it is painted.
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British Dictionary definitions for orgy
/ (ˈɔːdʒɪ) /
a wild gathering marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc
an act of immoderate or frenzied indulgence
(often plural) secret religious rites of Dionysus, Bacchus, etc, marked by drinking, dancing, and songs
Origin of orgy
1Derived forms of orgy
- orgiastic, adjective
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