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debauchee

American  
[deb-aw-chee, -shee] / ˌdɛb ɔˈtʃi, -ˈʃi /

noun

  1. a person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; one given to debauchery.

debauchee British  
/ ˌdɛbɔːˈtʃiː, -ɔːˈʃiː /

noun

  1. a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence

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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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Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet unlike those prodigals who waste themselves and their substance alike, he was not regarded as either a spendthrift or a debauchee, but rather as a refined voluptuary.''

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Empress Eudocia Ingerina avenged the unfortunate princess in a manner more pardonable in the mistress of a besotted debauchee than in the wife of an emperor.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

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