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UK
/dɪbˈɔːtʃiː/
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NOUN
- a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
How To Use debauchee In A Sentence
- 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
- He describes the Reformers under siege at St Andrews Castle as a ‘sinister collection of drunkards, debauchees, and religious maniacs’.
- Although we may willfully turn away from what we conceive as good, that is an unnatural action; Augustine has nothing to say here to the immoralist or the debauchee.
- I took the one per cent of me that was a reckless debauchee like John Seff and imagined that the other ninety-nine per cent didn't exist. That's how novels are written.
- The smoking of Lyámbá, called Dyámbá in the southern regions, is confined to debauchees. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
- Although we may willfully turn away from what we conceive as good, that is an unnatural action; Augustine has nothing to say here to the immoralist or the debauchee.
- 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
- Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design — Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2
- 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
- He was a crony of Buckingham, with a reputation as a wit, debauchee, drunkard, and patron.