orgies
- plural of orgy.
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere, though, her lyrics reference everyone from Brad and Angelina to UFC fighter Conor McGregor, while joking about Pilates classes, fast food orgies, and "hot potato pain".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2022
When the right people take the podium these three-hour telecasts become something more than fashion shows and orgies of self-congratulation which, make no mistake, they still are.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2020
The streets are orgies of blossoms, boughs of cherries and pears histrionically thick with flowers in basic white and show-off pink.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
Binyamin Appelbaum, The Times’s economics wiz, riposted on Twitter: “A more accurate characterization of the housing bubble is that it was one of the largest orgies of white collar criminality in American history.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2018
These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
