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/bˌækɐnˈeɪliən/
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ADJECTIVE
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used of riotously drunken merrymaking
orgiastic festivity
a night of bacchanalian revelry
carousing bands of drunken soldiers
How To Use bacchanalian In A Sentence
- But in that typically unabashed and upfront Californian way - though she was actually born in Phoenix, Arizona - she refuses to be coy about the band's bacchanalian excesses.
- I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college.
- I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
- There is nothing wild or bacchanalian to report.
- Naturally, such bacchanalian and sybaritic efforts resulted in rock n' roll suicides -- so to speak -- indigenous to the region, such as the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Steve Took of '70s glam duo T. Shana Ting Lipton: Rock, Riots, Rebellion and the Real Notting Hill
- _Asti spumante_ poured out for him, instead of milk, by these bacchanalian Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
- a night of bacchanalian revelry
- I remember being 17 and being caught by my father puking up in the loo after a particularly bacchanalian dinner party.
- Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
- Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness.