debauchery

Noun

Meaning

Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

saturnalia bacchanalia bacchanal riot orgy debauch licentiousness bender fornication badness evil vice excess corruption dissolution
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Antonyms

best good giving advantage honor beauty
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Hypernyms

revel revelry

Related terms

debauched debauch debauchee debaucher debaucherous

Derivatives

debaucheries

Examples

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. George Santayana

Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow. Cassandra Clare

Of escape there are but three methods - two chimerical and a third real. The first two are the dram-shop and the church, debauchery of the body or debauchery of the mind; the third is social revolution. Mikhail Bakunin

Thank the Lord, we subsidize our own debauchery first of all before we subsidize the debauchery of others. Halldór Laxness

Without business, debauchery. French Proverb

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

debaucher debaucherous debaucherously debauching debauchment debauchness