How To Use Debauched In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Brutal, licentious, violent and debauched as it was, however, ancient Rome is relevant still.
  • His debauched antics are beginning to catch up with him as his fed-up pregnant girl-friend has banned him from his own house!
  • ___ America will become less Judeo-Christian, more "paganized" and more debauched morally. Eric Williams: The War on Christmas in July
  • It all began with an innocent Xmas dinner, which turned into a rather debauched affair.
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  • Lombroso's work was translated into French in 1887 and won the praise of Hippolyte Taine, who thought that the French Revolution was caused by a debauched and degenerate canaille.
  • Her excessive libido and debauched lifestyle are now discussed with unprecedented enthusiasm and indiscretion.
  • It made it hard for me to be undebauched. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • But what have I, a continuing PhD, done to deserve to join in the debauched bacchanalian revelry of undergrads?
  • Why doth one of you spend his time in idleness and folly, and wasting of precious time, perhaps debauchedly? Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • Today, the prime minister is fond of ranting about the ‘public service ethic’; but that ethic has cynically been debauched by the government.
  • Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
  • 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
  • Her excessive libido and debauched lifestyle are now discussed with unprecedented enthusiasm and indiscretion.
  • I regarded the wretched, debauched souls around me downing their chocolate chip cookies and fries as mere animals reduced to satisfying gustatory lusts.
  • Families from hell, adolescent angst and pre-teen mothers can also be found in the middle ages, along with debauched monks and cheeky kids.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Why is it that the self-aggrandizements of Cicero, the lecheries and whining of Ovid and the blatherings of that debauched old goose Seneca made it onto the Net before the works that give us solid technical information about what Rome was really good at, viz. the construction of her great buildings and works of engineering?
  • Sodomite, Samaritan, Sidonian -- it's all about the stranger, you see, the heathen, the infidel, the hated and feared Other whose morés are anathema, whose lifestyle seems debauched, whose cities seem dens of iniquity. On Sophistry and Subjectivity
  • His work was included in numerous exhibitions, including one-man shows, and he became a well-known figure in the art world, but he fell seriously ill in 1906-a result of his debauched life - and stopped painting.
  • The drain of the agricultural population to big cities, due chiefly to persuading them to abandon their natural ideals, has not only made the country less tolerable to the peasant, but debauched the town.
  • The movie concentrates on Rochester's lascivious and debauched adventures in London, gallivanting about with other aristocratic hedonists.
  • Miss Trevor gulped it down, and then permitted herself to be led to a sofa, where she lay sprawled, her immaculate hat on one side, giving her the look of a debauched gerontic virgin. Black Oxen
  • But in its long history, the British monarchy has survived ignorant, incompetent, debauched and mad sovereigns as well as many ambitious mistresses.
  • (James Adams, the Globe and Mail) "A debauched, capering streak of living gristle. A face that only a mother (or a writer) could love: scribes weigh in on Keith Richards' visage
  • The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
  • Amongst the great variety there is of ingenious manual arts, ’twill be impossible that no one should be found to please and delight him, unless he be either idle or debauched, which is not to be supposed in a right way of education. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 201-210
  • 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.
  • The film has a cast of woman characters and the lead is Waheeda Rehman, a spectacled old lady led into manual labor by the vagaries of her husband, a sarangi player who is insatiably addicted to alcohol and the rural theatre of nautanki and though not explicitly stated, to the debauched life that such artistes were generally understood to be attracted to. Namkeen: The tears are salty
  • His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age. Jura Duty
  • They have seen public life debauched by Labour on an unprecedented scale.
  • A prayer as full of cruelty against a most peaceful and valuable part of the community, as it was hypocritical in calling a debauched and profligate man [Charles the Second] 'our religious king. ' Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
  • The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
  • Popped out in the garden today to mow the lawn and generally get some exercise after a rather debauched weekend and noticed with glee that the four potatoes I stuck in the ground a few weeks ago have turned into plants.
  • 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
  • Mr. Payne complains of the obscurity of the original owing to abuse of the figure enallage; but I find them explicit enough, referring to some debauched elder after the type of Abu Nowas. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • 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.
  • His successors - despite, or because of, debauched lifestyles - were unable to fulfil the basic task of breeding.
  • So back in London I am - working at the moment - for what may well be my final debauched weekend for a good long while.
  • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
  • 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
  • The principle of ministerial responsibility has been debauched by its invocation on any conceivable occasion, to the extent that it has become almost meaningless.
  • The second hypothesis, which is more plausible, is that Helen is illegitimate - one of her debauched father's by-blows.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Expect the same trashy rock and electro vibe in a more intimate and debauched atmosphere.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Rep. Sally Kern says 'debauched' gay marriage caused bad economy (video) Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The average Las Vegas vacation is already a debauched combination of gambling, sex and alcohol.
  • 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.
  • Published in 1819, John Polidor's The Vampyre is the tale of a decadent, debauched aristocrat.
  • This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still being in their 20s always helps even if their debauched lifestyle of drink and drugs should have pretty much killed them by now.
  • He was abusive, debauched, arrogant, derisive, intolerant, and possibly the loneliest man who ever lived.
  • Instead it turned into an orgy of debauched excess.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In an effort to sell his friend's art, he bumbles into a debauched carnival of sex and drugs.
  • 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.
  • The young man's honesty was debauched by the prospect of easy money.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • They have debauched the values on which the party was founded.
  • I don't think Derek would have debauched me right there in Lady Danbury's garden.

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