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Definition of debauchery :
1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
Synonyms:
scream, debauch, lasciviousness, saturnalia, lewdness, rioting, drunken reveller, bacchanal, desire, bacchant, lechery, splurge, bacchanalia, sidesplitter, binge, drunken revelry, howler, profligacy, wow, public violence, thigh-slapper, libertinism, drunken reveler, belly laugh, riot
intemperance (part of speech: noun)
excessiveness, dissipation, self-indulgence, intemperance, revelry, luxury, drunkenness, orgy, indulgence, carousal, sensuality
vice (part of speech: noun)
criminality, wickedness, badness, blameworthiness, sinisterness, immorality, iniquitousness, degeneration, sadism, evildoing, sin, corruption, impropriety, damnability, baseness, obnoxiousness, indecency, perversion, reprehensibleness, sinfulness, perverseness, depravity, vice, blackness, feloniousness, villainousness
misuse (part of speech: noun)
desecration, ill-use, abuse, violation, ill-treatment, degradation, debasement, misuse, despoiling, maltreatment
Usage examples:
- The Amhara's life is one round of sensual debauchery; his conversation seldom deviates to pure or innocent subjects: no title is so envied by the men as that of libertine, and the women, also, are all ambitious of a like distinction: an " unfortunate" is not regarded as unfortunate there. - "A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People", Henry Blanc.
- His constitution was very favourable to love, but never to debauchery, and rarely to violent attachment. - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)", Isaac D'Israeli.
- He may, despite her remonstrances, take this her substance and her money, and spend it in foolish speculation; or, worse still, in gambling, drunkenness, and debauchery. - "Woman: Man's Equal", Thomas Webster.