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Antonyms for debauchery


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-baw-chuh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈbɔ tʃə ri



Definition of debauchery

Origin :
  • 1640s, from debauch + -ery. With a variety of spellings in 17c., e.g. debaush-, deboich-, debosh-.
  • noun immoral self-indulgence
Example sentences :
  • Men who take from the poor daily interest for a drachma, and spend it in debauchery.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • You look in vain for any outward signs of profligacy or debauchery.
  • Extract from : « Sunday under Three Heads » by Charles Dickens
  • Debauchery had rejected them, it had just cast them back to their anguish.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • It was a long night of debauchery, and this that we now see is the sad morning afterwards!
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • I saw her on the high road to debauchery, and it was my own doing!
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • I think, even, he hated the inevitable partner in his debauchery.
  • Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • What, has not the pencil been long enough and too long consecrated to debauchery and vice?
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
  • Under his dispensation the town is said to have been turned into a place of debauchery.
  • Extract from : « The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 » by Henry Baerlein
  • How fared the spirit of Lafayette during this debauchery in the name of freedom?
  • Extract from : « The Spirit of Lafayette » by James Mott Hallowell
  • His zest in debauchery might wane, but never Mrs. Cutter's belief in it.
  • Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather

Synonyms for debauchery

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