debauchery
[dih-baw-chuh-ree]
- excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.
- Archaic. seduction from duty, allegiance, or virtue.
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Origin of debauchery
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Examples from the Web for debauchery
Contemporary Examples
The emperor Nero—known for his debauchery apparently collected the things.
But only in recent years have athletes begun to divulge lurid details of Olympic sexcapades and debauchery.
Instead, check out Sutherland's Christmas moment of self-awareness, in which he intimates the true source of his debauchery.
Historical Examples
Men who take from the poor daily interest for a drachma, and spend it in debauchery.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
You look in vain for any outward signs of profligacy or debauchery.
Sunday under Three HeadsCharles Dickens
Debauchery had rejected them, it had just cast them back to their anguish.
Therese RaquinEmile Zola
It was a long night of debauchery, and this that we now see is the sad morning afterwards!
Sir Jasper CarewCharles James Lever
I saw her on the high road to debauchery, and it was my own doing!
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
Word Origin and History for debauchery
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper