Example Sentences

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He wrote as well as he painted, and he acted as well as he wrote, and he was never really happy with a talent till he had debauched it.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John

And it confused those deserving citizens with the unworthy many, whom pension agents and office seekers had debauched at the expense of the Nation.

From Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by House, Edward Mandell

He was a coward—a fraud—a sham; he found himself, in this moment of bitter self-reproach, untrue even to the flimsy conception of duty which, when it put him to the test, he had debauched.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore

The man had sunk so low that he was repeatedly arrested for pretending to be blind on the street corners, and had debauched an innocent dog to assist in this deception.

From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don

In these we are told that she had "checked the rage of reigning vice that had debauched the stage."

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund