The phrase "decadent by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is indulgent, excessive, or overly luxurious. Example: The hotel's decadent breakfast buffet, filled with an array of pastries, fruits, and specialty dishes, was declared a decadent feast by all the guests.
Still, she keeps her emotional gushing from seeming decadent by winking at her masochistic tendencies.
Most belonged to avant-garde or dissident aesthetic movements and had their work declared "decadent" by the Nazis.
He quickly picked up Bulgarian, and entertained his local friends in a manner that was decadent by the standards of Communism, sneaking them into the only casino in town, which locals were not permitted to enter.
The first king of the northern kingdom also inaugurated other religious reforms or reinstituted ancient practices that were interpreted as decadent by the Deuteronomic historian of the southern kingdom of Judah.
A few minor roles have been winnowed out (though the dozen remaining characters feel decadent by today's budget-conscious standards), and certain plot threads now weave through the play far more consistently.
It was there, while training as an army schoolmaster in Hanover, that he first saw the work of Klee, in the process of being rehabilitated after years of being labelled "decadent" by the Nazis.
The former had noble associations dating from the ancient Greeks; the latter (as personified in A la Recherche by the Baron de Charlus) was a modern, decadent variety by means of which a man would become a woman for another man.
Even though his Earth Burger includes no meat, it offers the taste buds a gooey, decadent tradeoff by dandying up a mushroom-and-edamame patty with ricotta, truffle aioli and cipollini onions.
I recall a visit to Czechoslovakia led by my colleague, Nigel Osborne, to protest at the imprisonment of the Czech jazz section for having and playing decadent tracks by, amongst others, John Lennon.
Consider LAN, a recently opened mega-restaurant where a sea of designer labels throbs within an interior that can only be described as decadent — even by the standards of its over-the-top designer, Philippe Starck.
His 21st birthday party in Flint, Michigan, has been cited as a notorious example of decadent behaviour by rock groups.
