All 6 Uses of
decadent
in
The Fountainhead
- He explained that the decadence of architecture had come when private property replaced the communal spirit of the Middle Ages, and that the selfishness of individual owners—who built for no purpose save to satisfy their own bad taste, "all claim to an individual taste is bad taste"—had ruined the planned effect of cities.†
Chpt 1.6
- When I'm in a mood for something decadent I'll probably meet him.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- We're too cynical, too decadent.†
Chpt 1.12
- A society woman wrote an article on the exotic shrines she had seen in her dangerous jungle travels, praised the touching faith of the savages and reproached modern man for cynicism; the Stoddard Temple, she said, was a symptom of softness and decadence; the illustration showed her in breeches, one slim foot on the neck of a dead lion.†
Chpt 2.12
- He looked like the decadent, overperfected end product of a long line of exquisite breeding—and everybody knew that he came from the gutter.†
Chpt 3.1
- "You talk like a decadent bourgeois, Ellsworth," said Gus Webb.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(decadent) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay