Antonyms for debauchee

Grammar : Noun

Spell : deb-aw-chee, -shee

Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɛb ɔˈtʃi, -ˈʃi

Definition of debauchee

Origin : 1660s, from French débauché "debauched (person)," noun use of past participle of debaucher (see debauch).
Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]

As in pervert : noun person who lacks morals
As in profligate : noun person who is immoral
As in wanton : noun profligate person
As in drunkard : noun one who drinks too much
As in libertine : noun debauched person
As in hedonist : noun person who seeks pleasure above other values

Example sentences :

This man was evil, not with the grossness of a debauchee but with the thinness of the devotee.
Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

I would have your Majesty consider which of us is the debauchee.
Extract from : « A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems » by Various

Beware of love, for it is worse than disease for a debauchee, and it is ridiculous.
Extract from : « Child of a Century, Complete » by Alfred de Musset

In his own ears it sounded like the still-born narrative of a debauchee.
Extract from : « The Rest Hollow Mystery » by Rebecca N. Porter

Dandy as he was, and debauchee, to her at least he had been passionately faithful.
Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar

There was nothing about his features to indicate the confirmed inebriate or debauchee.
Extract from : « The Yazoo Mystery » by Irving Craddock

He was neither milksop nor adventurer, neither celibate by nature nor debauchee.
Extract from : « Arundel » by Edward Frederic Benson

But his way of talking to women and about them was more odious than the way of a debauchee.
Extract from : « The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford » by Mark Rutherford

Tiberius, in the days he spent in Capri, was a tyrant and a debauchee.
Extract from : « Naples Past and Present » by Arthur H. Norway

It is this: Logan was a restless, disappointed intriguer and debauchee.
Extract from : « James VI and the Gowrie Mystery » by Andrew Lang

Synonyms for debauchee

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