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It is typically used to describe someone who is morally or sexually unrestrained, often in the context of excessive indulgence in pleasures. Example: "The party was filled with debauched revelers who lost themselves in the night." Alternatives include "dissolute" or "depraved."
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debauched
verb
Past of debauch
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Hang on … your mum gave you permission to be a debauched pop star?! Yeah!
But three decades of cheapening money have debauched the lira so much that households routinely think in billions, and banks in trillions or even quadrillions.
Mr Gandhi, whom the Washingtonian dubbed "Dr No", rationalised the city's tax collection and its spending after Marion Barry, a four-term former mayor (and drug convict), had debauched the municipal exchequer.
Bluto (played by the now immortal John Belushi) was rallying the beleaguered brothers of Delta Tau Chi, victims of the censorious Dean Vernon Wormer and his campaign to obliterate the fraternity of debauched misfits.
Similarly, the debauched Chinese-American lead of "21&Over", a comedy, became a wholesome overseas exchange student in the Chinese cut.The Chinese government has said it wants to see "positive Chinese images" in co-productions.
She mocked their intolerance of dissent in a poem on pornography:There's nothing more debauched than thinking.
A spokesperson for the Istanbul governor's office justified the moves on the grounds that "illegal terror organisations and their arms would provoke violence".Pro-government newspapers splashed photographs of the alleged provocateurs leaning over rows of beer bottles, supposedly suggesting how debauched they were.
Please don't kick us when we are down!Alex MonroI am stunned by the editorial policy that permits a statement that "Linnaeus' system is being subtly debauched by over-eager taxonomists" to survive the editing process.
Mr Toledo inherited from Mr Fujimori a country whose democratic institutions had been destroyed or debauched and a people who felt betrayed.
Despite these sensational ingredients, Ms Yan's unflinching narration of Fusang's career in the brutal San Francisco flesh trade does not offer the reader an easy hit of debauched chinoiserie, and Fusang remains inscrutable throughout.Generational as much as geographical factors divide contemporary Chinese literature.
Peru's public institutions were subverted and its political morality debauched by Mr Fujimori.
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