debauchee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of debauchee
First recorded in 1655–65, debauchee is from the French word débauché (past participle of débaucher ). See debauch, -ee
Example Sentences
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His generosity, however, still more displayed itself in wasting, among debauchees like himself, whatever he possessed, and thinking no means ignoble to dissipate what he had thought no means dishonourable to obtain.
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Accordingly, in studying the historic families of Europe, we frequently find that the devotee and the debauchee alternate, each producing the other, both being expressions of the same moral and mental defect.
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Tiberius, in the days he spent in Capri, was a tyrant and a debauchee.
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A debauchee, named Rudolf, had become my confidant; he, however, always laughed to scorn my longings and complaints.
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If they ever become impotent in the production of pleasure, it is when their possessors have become gluttons, sots, debauchees, misers, or some similar compound of human depravity.
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