bacchanalian

[ UK /bˌækɐnˈe‍ɪli‍ən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    orgiastic festivity
    a night of bacchanalian revelry
    carousing bands of drunken soldiers
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How To Use bacchanalian In A Sentence

  • A bottle was opened, and the minister pledged the bride, and the bridesmaids simpered and tasted, and I made a speech with airy bacchanalianism, glass in hand. The Wrecker
  • 20-25 is really the only time you'll have for Bacchanalian orgiastic sex of the highest caliber.
  • There is nothing wild or bacchanalian to report.
  • _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.
  • Their pale sun-gilt green set a glow of bacchanalianism about the weather-worn heads of the old orchard giants. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
  • But in appearance he still ruled, dozing oft-times at the board, a bacchanalian ruin, yet in all seeming the ruler of the feast. The Wit of Porportuk
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