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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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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

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

Presumably it is for the memory of Caligula the soldier, rather than Caligula the desperate debauchee, that Premier Mussolini's engineers and archaeologists are laboring at Lake Nemi.

From Time Magazine Archive

This one a tyrant, that one an imbecile, another a traitor, the next a debauchee, while some muster all the vices.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

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