How To Use Debauch In A Sentence

Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
I used to indulge in lonely debauches, on nights when I knew my crew was going to sleep ashore. Chapter 11
Many of them clearly enjoyed a traditional expatriate life of abandoned debauchery.
For many young men, this would be a licence to indulge in debauchery, but Richie was a sensitive soul.
In 1805, an extremely handsome young man, he went up to Cambridge, where he attended intermittently to his studies between extravagant debauches there and in London.

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Two of my star sign cards in Thoth are Pleasure and Debauchery. Spooky « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
And then some unscheduled odd event - a thrilling novel, an unexpected phone call, a bout of debauch - will push the envelope, and the gears will start to spin.
Professing not to know that his nubile young companion on one particularly debauched evening was a call girl is even worse than knowing, and then trying to brazen your way out of it.
From this topic he transferred his disquisitions to the verb drink, which he affirmed was improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor; that the genuine meaning of drinking is to quench one's thirst, or commit a debauch by swallowing wine; that the Latin word, which conveyed the same idea, was bibere or potare, and that of the The Adventures of Roderick Random
I am off to my sister's house for a night of drunken revelry and debauchery.
Why has CBS News decided it would rather debauch its brand and treat its audience like morons than simply admit their hoax?
This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
Published in 1819, John Polidor's The Vampyre is the tale of a decadent, debauched aristocrat.
Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers. The Captive
We did not and will not think for one moment to target them even if they were people of immorality and debauchery.
As the youth is guided to his bed, he is assaulted by ‘unspeakable odors’ that seem to be ‘the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches’.
The spectacle that is the weekly toga party can only be described as complete drunken debauchery.
If the chemistry is right, they can be fun, rowdy, and filled with a bit of harmless debauchery.
They make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth the little liberty they enjoyed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
There is no sadder reading than the many pleas addressed by the Indian chiefs to various officials to stop the importation of liquor into their country, alleging the debauchment of their young men and warning the white man, with whom they desired to be friends, that in an Indian drink and blood lust quickly combined. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
I find religious or morally upright people to be happy, hardworking individuals who know what is good in a country unlike those debauchees who have nothing to do for one society other than get drunk and have orgies.
Giasone" (1649) is a comic farrago on the Jason-Medea-Golden Fleece tale, with Jason as a serial debaucher, Medea switching from jealous harpy to generous relinquisher of said Jason to her rival Isifile (both women have given birth to twins sired by Jason), and a bevy of clownish servants. On a Tattered Shoestring
Hypothermia can occur in younger people with heroin overdosage, from severely low blood sugars, in mountaineers, after near drowning, or in a derelict found under a bridge after an alcoholic debauch.
I don't watch Eastenders these days, but I often catch a few minutes from the Sunday afternoon omnibus edition as I struggle to set the VCR before setting out for a night's debauch.
I have to say I agree with the hungriest of kings, with emperors even, historians, composers, and with every sole debauchee known to man. Diminish the moon
I have been rather busy since my last posting: Tom came back from his stag weekend which sadly was less debauched than he had license to be involved in.
When the Scots diarist James Boswell travelled to Corsica in 1765, he was warned he would be killed instantly if he so much as attempted ‘to debauch any of their women’.
Perhaps soldiers patrolling in camouflage gear don't lend themselves to debauchery in the French Quarter.
The debauchee, the souteneur, the rough often break out into murmurs at a slightly risky scene or expression, though they be very harmless in comparison with their customary conversation. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
At about 11 pm, fellow debauchees started to urge us to leave, as we had mentioned that we were getting up at 5: 30 am.
Are they two different men, one a pillar of propriety who stares from a portrait, the other a debauchee and a rake? A Mountain of Crumbs
The average Las Vegas vacation is already a debauched combination of gambling, sex and alcohol.
I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
Beyond proving that British chavs lead the world in teenage debauchery there are other interesting statistical snippets.
The public are like rabid dogs ready to punce on every new tidbit of his debauchery. BlogHer - Comments
His father Richard IV and his grandfather John II - hunters, debauchees, and all-round boorish men of action - had made a much better fist of things.
Before long, he's hosting pot and LSD-fueled debauches in his dorm room. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Mr. Nice
The mark of true debauchees is, surely, when individuals have become so consumed by the excesses of their own sensual desires and carnal appetites that they can no longer function as whole and integral human beings.
They set up a spurious temple that was a cover for sexual debauchery.
In the parable, the younger son of a wealthy family requests his inheritance in advance and leaves home to go to the city, where he leads an extravagant and debauched life, and spends every cent.
There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
Rep. Sally Kern says 'debauched' gay marriage caused bad economy (video) Propeller Most Popular Stories
Fraeb arrived one or two days after their departure, and camp presented a confused scene of rioting, and debauchery for several days, after which however, the kegs of alcohol were again bunged, and all became tranquil. Life in the Rocky Mountains
They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.” George Washington’s First War
debauchee," his existence is oddly sexless for long times at a stretch ... unless one counts building elaborate erotic implements as a "sex life. The Seattle Times
After the long, corrupt reign of an old debauched Prince, whose vices were degrading to himself and to a nation groaning under the lash of prostitution and caprice, the most cheering changes were expected from the known exemplariness of his successor and the amiableness of his consort. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
I was fascinated by his aura: a bit of a debauchee, he knew everyone, had been everywhere, had attended all possible fancy parties. Patrizia Chen: My First Tango
Within a few years, Carbonneau, ‘a debauchee and libertine’ had frittered away her money on dubious enterprises.
Lyámbá, called Dyámbá in the southern regions, is confined to debauchees. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
In fact, after I'd had the stroke I wished I'd lived a more debauched life, then I might have deserved it,’ she says, jokingly.
And what is this Black Box, if not an epicentre of devilish debauchery.
To call what this aerial armada did a ‘war’, as distinct from unchallenged slaughter, is to debauch language.
Expect the same trashy rock and electro vibe in a more intimate and debauched atmosphere.
Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, Hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart -- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as Assyrian sphinxes. The Satanic Verses
If it's a holiday of drunken debauchery you want, this is not your dream destination.
Don't worry, we'll return to the good old blue-and-orange as soon as Baby Jesus is finished celebrating the twelve days of saturnalian debauchery with Tiny Tim up at the Burlington Mall. Philocrites: 'Tis the season to be syncretists.
Finally, after nearly five hours of show, audience members beganslipping away into the warm June night, clutching their programs,souvenir t-shirts, and even some voter-registration forms, and smiledthe smiles of the thoroughly, debauchedly, and fabulously entertained. On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com
The second hypothesis, which is more plausible, is that Helen is illegitimate - one of her debauched father's by-blows.
But alas! this is a way which never takes: for such great ones in all their debauches will be attended upon through thick and thin, and care not for any but a thoroughpaced companion in their vices; since no other can give them any countenance in their lewdness, which is the chief thing they drive at and desire. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Under the theocracy no such loose system was possible, for heresy might enter in three different ways; first, under the early law, "blasphemers" might form a congregation and from thence creep into the company; second, an established church might fall into error; third, an unsound minister might be chosen, who would debauch his flock by securing the admission of sectaries to the sacrament. The Emancipation of Massachusetts
He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
I am against drinking to excess, but generally take a softer stand on debauchery.
The principle of ministerial responsibility has been debauched by its invocation on any conceivable occasion, to the extent that it has become almost meaningless.
They set up a spurious temple that was a cover for sexual debauchery.
So that as [3306] Tacitus said of the astrologers in Rome, we may say of them, genus hominum est quod in civitate nostra et vitabitur semper et retinebitur, they are a debauched company most part, still spoken against, as well they deserve some of them (for I so relish and distinguish them as fiddlers, and musicians), and yet ever retained. Anatomy of Melancholy
Oh blest deliverance — what a profane wretch is here, and what a lewd world we live in — oh London, London, how thou aboundest in Iniquity, thy Young men are debaucht, thy Virgins defloured, and thy Matrons all turn'd Bawds! my Lady Fancy, this is not company for you I take it, let us fly from this vexation of spirit on the never-failing wings of discretion. — Sir Patient Fancy
I have thought of opening a whorehouse for women my age, where you can have a talk with a pirate type who can discuss poetry and economics, and then actually enjoy you sexually, or meet a statesman with whom you can discuss interesting political issues that would lead to some debauchment later, in an undisclosed location. Roseanne Archy
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
So back in London I am - working at the moment - for what may well be my final debauched weekend for a good long while.
The captain had sat somewhile with his face in his hands; now he rose mechanically, shaking and stumbling like a drunkard after a debauch. The Wrecker
His successors - despite, or because of, debauched lifestyles - were unable to fulfil the basic task of breeding.
He mentions an area at the end of one irrigation canal known as Gulkana, "a secluded, cozy spot ... (where) much debauchery is indulged in" and offers this parody of Hafiz he heard there: Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Hit your head on the nu-punk rock at this sweaty day of debauchery featuring tons of bands.
This is as lavish as off-Broadway gets, with David Gallo's cubistic set, Mark Dendy's hotblooded choreography and a terrific band led by Stephen Oremus, all marshaled by Barre into a crescendo of debauchery and death. The Two-Party System
It is an orgy, a debauch; and I am sure the addled sailors adjudge me the queerest creature on board. CHAPTER XX
Politics was debauched a long time ago by television, and it's not going to go back, they're not going to change it, it's not going to get any better.
I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch. Pelham — Complete
Along with fellow debauchers Richard Burton and Oliver Reed, he made scandalous headlines in the '60s and '70s while doing enormous damage to his health.
Yet a mere six months later, Sade is engaging in his most outrageous debauches to date.
He let army contractors in to browse the bronzes, ormolu-mounted Sèvres vases, and giltwood mirrors that once reflected carnivals of artifice, vanity, and debauch. THE DIAMOND
For some reason I wasn't charged but several other players were asked to pay their huge hotel bar bills after a night of drunken debauchery.
When I said that I considered La Grange a great actor, he replied: “And a notorious debauchee.” Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
a gluttonous debauch
Over the last few weeks I've been slowly getting my life back on the straight and narrow after a year or so of hedonistic debauchery.
I don't think Derek would have debauched me right there in Lady Danbury's garden.
When we see so many revolt from the profession of the reformed religion, to the corruptions and superstitions of Rome; and others, from a religious and sober life, to plunge themselves into all kind of lewdness and debauchery, and, it is to be feared, into atheism and infidelity; can we doubt any longer whether it be possible for The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
We need not be personally introduced to fictional debauchery and bestiality to understand the horror of real occurrences.
Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
Having begun its corrupt debauchment of conurbations worldwide by sleazing up New York (kind of a gimme), this rampant rendezvous of ravishment has moved on to purvey its own sordid brand of pastel-smudged skullduggery in the artistic communities of more than two dozen cities. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, NYC « Skid Roche
Only one source, Gildas, was writing within a hundred years of the events described, and even he was trying to prove his own agenda, that the kings of Briton had lost their land to the Saxons through debauchery and godless living.
It is trickery, it is debauchery, it is an attempt to make a box office killing in the name of an artist's licence of creativity.
Lenin is said to have said the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency.
They have debauched the values on which the party was founded.
Isn't your name a byword in London for debauchery and vice, for every kind of lewdness and depravity? Flashman's Lady
Remember that – the comedy, featuring debauched "crones", by which I mean characters definitely over 40, exhibiting the kind of wrinkly, female repulsiveness that shouldn't be allowed on to the nation's screens? There's a wrinkle in attitudes to women on TV
The decadence and debauchery of Paris was beckoning to him and he could hardly resist such open temptation.
The numbers of his misdeeds are like the grains of sand on the seashore, his orgies have shamed our generation, his debauches are a disgrace upon the fame of "Unto Caesar"
I drift with the crowd out of the square into a tangle of narrow streets, where the public-houses are a-roar with drunkenness, men, women, and children mixed together in colossal debauch. CORONATION DAY
If I had half a brain left after my debauchery, I'd give up the other women, and the W-I-F-E.
Matt is then offered a job at a newspaper, moves his family to London and becomes embroiled with a career debaucher called Lawrence and a young, ambitious former colleague, Rachel.
Moreover, they had a refreshing ability to avoid being nailed by those same tabloids that uncovered acts of debauchery by British players on a depressingly regular basis.
Any mother in England would have shrunk from the thought that her best-beloved son – especially a young man of Guy's temperament, and under Guy's present circumstances – was thrown into the society which now surrounded the debauched dotage of the too-notorious Earl of Luxmore. John Halifax, Gentleman
The debauchee is less reliable than the merely careless. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Although he was a serious patron of the arts, the duke was also known as Philippe the Debauched, a ruler who favored the company of actresses, courtesans, and rakes. The Dragon’s Trail
Wouldn't want to get myself so stressed out that I couldn't enjoy a weekend full of sex and debauchery.
Those who dissipate their spirits in debauching women cannot apply themselves to serious study.
+ Schism and disunion he brands as crimes to be classed with murder and debauchery, and declares that those guilty of "dissensions" and The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
But, indeed, this Imperial debauch has in it something worse than the mere larkiness which is my present topic; it has an element of real self-flattery and of sin. Alarms and Discursions
So thoroughly have they debauched its role that, were it not for the requirements of the Constitution, we could close it down tomorrow and it would make no difference.
If Polanski did anything wrong, and some, I think, would even say he did not, he should be forgiven for a single folly, committed way back in the 'lude' and hot-tub heyday of 1970s Hollywood debauchery. Nina Burleigh: Genius and Young Flesh
It's great fun for them and amusing for those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to vicariously participate in these holiday debauches. Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
They frequently learn from unbred or debauched servants, such language, untowardly tricks and vices, as otherwise they would be ignorant of all their lives. Pamela
The young man's honesty was debauched by the prospect of easy money.
Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
He abuseth thee finely, saith thou art a debauched vagabond, which is an insult to me thy serving companion, whom he threatened with the stocks. Cromwell
In an effort to sell his friend's art, he bumbles into a debauched carnival of sex and drugs.
Sure, illegally downloaded sitcoms, homemade pizza and piles of Nicorette gum hardly qualify for Ernest Hemingway liver-braising debauchment. Diary of an Expat Downloader
But most strangely, rock's most notorious debauchees are looking incredibly healthy, modelling newly toned physiques and ordering eggs Benedict and mineral water.
The raw lad finds "debauches" mentioned with majestic melancholy, and he naturally fancies that, although a debauch may be wicked, it is neither nasty nor contemptible. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
Everyone in these offhanded portraits looked fabulous, in a debauched and groovy way, and even the characters who weren't familiar looked as they though should be, somewhere under the smeared mascara and opiated grins. The Club Everyone Wanted to Be In
A shambling family of starlings on Coll in May, debauched and chaotic and moaning about winter, above a corncrake still stoking up the year with its crex crex song “endorsing summer” as Louis MacNeice says, with the “sourdine in their throat” as Andrew Marvell says; A Year on the Wing
On the surface, it is a celebration of promiscuity and debauchery.
Children are to be found in it as well, waiting till their fathers and mothers are ready to go home, sipping from the glasses of their elders, listening to the coarse language and degrading conversation, catching the contagion of it, familiarising themselves with licentiousness and debauchery. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
A doctrine this whereby it is possible for me certainly to know, that how loosely, how profanely, how debauchedly soever, I should behave myself, yet God will love me, as he doth the holiest and most righteous man under heaven.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
There are no redeeming characters in this morality tale of corruption, adultery, and debauchery.
Those exercising the Offices of the several States, in equal measure, knew such “De Facto Transitions” were unlawful and unauthorized, but sanctioned, implemented and enforced the complete debauchment and the resulting “governmental, social, industrial economic change” in the “De Jure” States and in United States of America See: Public Law 94-564, Legislative History, pg. Firedoglake » The Constitution Is Not A Legal Technicality
She called me a 'music-sot,' once, a 'sound-debauchee.' WHEN GOD LAUGHS
He was a crony of Buckingham, with a reputation as a wit, debauchee, drunkard, and patron.
Is it ethical to do so, is it moral to debauch one's artistic integrity at the altar of Oscar greed?
Even the poignantly romantic In the Still of the Night comes a little oddly at the end of a second act filled with allegations of drunken debauchery.
I had gone through the article of the tutor, as well as I could; and will now observe upon what Mr. Locke says, That children are wholly, if possible, to be kept from the conversation of the meaner servants; whom he supposes to be, as too frequently they are, unbred and debauched, to use his own words. Pamela
Instead it turned into an orgy of debauched excess.
The roots of many carnivals around the world are in pre-Lenten debauch - a time to get down and dirty before those 40 days of strained piety.
J'ai écrit au Sr Peretié négociant à Smirne mon correspondent les intentions du ministère et après beaucoup de peines et de dangers, il est venu à bout de débaucher deux maitres teinturiers et un compagnon. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
He was abusive, debauched, arrogant, derisive, intolerant, and possibly the loneliest man who ever lived.
Still being in their 20s always helps even if their debauched lifestyle of drink and drugs should have pretty much killed them by now.
After I had walked about half a mile the pass widened considerably and a little way further on debauched on some wild moory ground. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Two teams emerged from a haze of weekend debauchery every Sunday to battle it out on the greens of McCarren Park.
Tonight, in front of the entire Law Enforcement Workers Association of New York, I will debauch you on the main gala dinner table.
The reality is a disturbingly different film, dark and sombre, a 17th century candle-lit England, a portrait of the poet and debauchee John Wilmot, and one that ultimately bows out to a feminist heroine
Page 340 cette importance il faloit plutost songer a ce procurere de quoy pour Subsister, que de faire des depenses inutiles et pas encore necessaires, etc. ma proposition deconcerta ces bons debauchéz, et ils firent tout leur possible pour me desbuser mais ma resolution fust ferme, et ie representay a M. Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
A return to a standard once lost is a painful and laborious journey… As Cobden once said of the greenbacks, after the debauch comes the headache.
He gives himself over entirely to a life of debauchery - wild parties, loose women, drinking, orgies.
And, except for a few periods of total debauchery, I've always been so, albeit a serial monogamist.
However, soon too many dollars are chasing too few goods, debauching the currency, as John Maynard Keynes once wrote, and eventually the exchange.
They often mistake so totally, as to imagine that debauchery is pleasure.
At least in the conventional, stereotypical, Nikki Sixxian definition of the term debauchery, EMP is a “no rocking” zone. Chuck Klosterman on Pop
Etymology: Middle French debaucher, from Old French desbauchier to scatter, disperse, from des – de – + bauch beam, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German balko beam — more at BALK The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”
Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
When our father died, he left us some money, which we shared amongst us, and he took his part of the inheritance and wasted it in frowardness and debauchery, till he was reduced to poverty, when he came upon us and cited us before the magistrates, avouching that we had taken his good and that of his father, and we disputed the matter before the judges and lost the money. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Wisconsin punter Ken DeBauche then stepped out of the end zone on the final play to account for the final score. USATODAY.com - Scores
They set up a spurious temple that was a cover for sexual debauchery.
That rag-tag, fly-encircled debaucher possessed a decidedly bad humor entirely lacking in this merry Falstaff. Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
Saturn was a man, fabled to have escaped by flight from his son to avoid being thrust from his kingdom; Jupiter also, the lewdest practiser of all debaucheries and of unnatural vice, the abuser of the women of his own family, who could not even abstain from intercourse with his own sister, as she herself admitted in the words “sister and spouse of Jove.” The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
She never had any children, and was not taxed with debauchery: "No man can say or affirm that ever she had a sweetheart or any such fond thing to dally with her;" a mastiff was the only living thing she cared for. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design — Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2
Voting has slowed down as everyone strolls off to their debauchery and revelry.
The world forgives him for debauching another man's wife, but would never have forgiven him had he raided the same man's henroost. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
But you will say, How can I do this, considering that many without fear or shame live most debauchedly, which I neither do nor will do? A Mirror for Monks.
Strong "arrack" [10] is brewed in large quantities from the gornuti palm, and the scene of debauchery that succeeds the first day of the feast is indescribable. On the Equator
The chorus shimmies, writhes, whirls, frugs, and electric-slides from one end of the stage to the other in the campy choreography of debauched hippies.
I used to indulge in lonely debauches, on nights when I knew my crew was going to sleep ashore. Chapter 11
This massive cut in taxes laid the foundations for the environment of social debauchery and orgiastic celebration of wealth that characterized the 1980s.
It was just that, as the author puts it: ‘For Matisse none of the standard forms of addiction or debauch could hope to match the risk and allure of painting.’
Other people are sensibly heading to work and you feel like a lowlife reprobate skulking home after a debauch.
Embattled mega church preacher Bishop Eddie Long came as close to confessing his sexual debauchery as any debaucher could come without actually confessing. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Eddie Long Can Repent By Apologizing for Gay Bashing
Youthful irresponsibility quickly evolved into recklessness, vanity, intolerance of rivals, and drunken debauch, so, by 1827, loss of respectability was accompanied by visible physical disintegration.
On the surface, it is a celebration of promiscuity and debauchery.
Assuming the ancestral title Lord Boleskine, he quickly became known locally as the ‘Beast of Boleskine’ for his heroin addiction and reputation as a debaucher of vulnerable women.
It is in prison that this renegade - who, if left at liberty, would almost certainly have remained yet another tedious 18th century debaucher - becomes a writer.
If you're like most people in Montreal, you're probably looking for something to do on a Saturday night that's the perfect mix of the right music, a taster's choice of libations and intoxicants, and a good helping of debauchery.
This is Hindi cinema at its most debased, debauch, dreadful.
BROWN: I mean, for years, we've only heard about Jackson as this kind of debauched, wacky pedophile, you know, but what made Michael Jackson great was the music. CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009
Eugene Debs, the principal leader of the Socialist Party at the turn of the century, declared it his mission to “plant benevolence in the heart of stone, instill the love of sobriety into the putrid mind of debauchery, and create industry out of idleness.” A Renegade History of the United States
Families from hell, adolescent angst and pre-teen mothers can also be found in the middle ages, along with debauched monks and cheeky kids.
There might be tales of drunken debauchery, late night carousing and wild sexual abandon, but only from other people.
I regarded the wretched, debauched souls around me downing their chocolate chip cookies and fries as mere animals reduced to satisfying gustatory lusts.
Her excessive libido and debauched lifestyle are now discussed with unprecedented enthusiasm and indiscretion.
Why not take more elevated and broader views, walk in the great garden, not skulk in a little "debauched" nook of it? consider the beauty of the forest, and not merely of a few impounded herbs? Excursions
I'll finally be able to live that life of debauchery that I always dreamed of.
Many of the British clearly enjoyed a traditional expatriate life of abandoned debauchery.
Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
I was into more than my fair share of debauchery and mindless consumption of drugs and alcohol.
The right Liberal ascendancy in the late 1990s and early 2000s did little to arrest the debauchment of European and North American culture. About that social encyclical...
It is just the same with the passengers: here is a gaolbird accommodated with a seat next the captain and treated with reverence, there a debauchee or parricide or temple-robber in honourable possession of the best place, while crowds of respectable people are packed together in a corner and hustled by their real inferiors. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
Today, the prime minister is fond of ranting about the ‘public service ethic’; but that ethic has cynically been debauched by the government.
There was, in reality, a person of the name of Chotard; but he was a man ruined by debts and debauchery; a fraudulent bankrupt who embezzled forty thousand crowns from the tax office of the farmers-general in which he held a situation, and who is not likely to have given up a hundred thousand crowns to the grandmother of the doctor in laws. A Philosophical Dictionary
With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility.
Though movies have associated higher education with the lower pleasures going at least as far back as the Marx Brothers 'Horse Feathers (1932), it wasn't until 1978 that director John Landis took dipsomaniacal debauchery to a new level and invented the modern college movie, for better and (mostly) worse. Film School
David Sowerby, 55, from Workington, was today facing a long spell behind bars after a judge said the pervert "debauched" his victims. News round-up
St Tropez conjures up images of topless beaches, the super-rich and their lapdogs, luxury yachts, blondes, leathery millionaire playboys and champagne-soaked debauchery.
But what have I, a continuing PhD, done to deserve to join in the debauched bacchanalian revelry of undergrads?
The atmosphere was more family carnival than drunken debauchery.
We live in a tolerant society where sex drugs and general debauchery are accepted.
The place had a reputation for hands-on debauch (and was reportedly raided by cops earlier this year), so of course we were curious.
The devil, as an unclean spirit, is working both in doctrinal errors (Rev.xvi. 13), and in practical debauchery (2 Pet.ii. 10); and in both these, ministers have a charge against him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Welsh and Gibson came up with eight characters and a typically debauched storyline that begins in 1985 when two Edinburgh teenagers run away to Blackpool and hook up with a Scottish goalkeeper and two prostitutes.
It made it hard for me to be undebauched. Times, Sunday Times
Others are authored by navel-gazing college students or self-declared alcoholics detailing each wretched night's debauch.

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