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Synonyms for debauchery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-baw-chuh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈbɔ tʃə ri |
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Définition of debauchery
Origin :- 1640s, from debauch + -ery. With a variety of spellings in 17c., e.g. debaush-, deboich-, debosh-.
- noun immoral self-indulgence
- 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
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