The word 'decadence' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a period of moral or cultural decline or decay. For example, "The Roman Empire experienced a period of decadence in its final years."
Better to be more judgmental and talk about simple decadence, and a culture which has crashed out backstage – lost, and literally out of it.
The "Great American Novel" about class, money, decadence, money, obsession, selfishness, passion, money, clothes and money.
Because it's the decadence of the rich aristocrat people just doing what the hell they want".
For many Zimbabweans, there is nothing to celebrate, and opposition parties have condemned such decadence in an economy that is teetering on the edge of disaster.
Much is written about the decadence of the times we live in, and there are plenty of people who believe the financial crisis was largely caused by feckless consumers buying Blu-Ray TVs they couldn't afford.
Charlie Hebdo lampoons all religions, not just Islam but it would have the right to single out that faith if it wanted to, just as Islamists in Europe are entitled to denounce Western decadence if they so choose.
CONSERVATIVE Americans like to contrast the vigour and virility of their own country with the decadence and decline of Europe.
And, lest Republicans crow about the decadence of their opponents, precisely the obverse happened when their man won in 2004.That, at least, is the conclusion of a study by Patrick Markey of Villanova University, in Pennsylvania, and his wife Charlotte, who works at Rutgers, in New Jersey.
The court of Louis XVI was full of cake-eating decadence, which offended the sturdy mores of the French bourgeoisie.
That evening a few hundred people turn out, curious to hear Mr Rochedy and his star guest, Marion Maréchal-Le Maréchal-Le Penr-old niece of the party leader and one of the FN's two deputies in parliament.Mr Rochedy, author of a book on the decadence of the West and admirer of Nietzsche, is part of a phalanx of young candidates recruited to become the new face of the FN.
He had been accused of spurning Islam in favour of "western decadence".A Yemeni court sentenced three Islamic militants to death for the abduction and murder of western tourists.
