All 5 Uses of
debauchery
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- And then because of his memories and his shame, he was glad when others joined them, men and women; and they had more drink and spent the night in wild rioting and debauchery.
Chpt 22 *debauchery = excessive drinking while partying
- This ball was held in a big dance hall, and was one of the occasions when the city's powers of debauchery gave themselves up to madness.
Chpt 25
- "Wide open" gambling and debauchery made the city pleasing to "trade," but burglaries and holdups did not.
Chpt 25debauchery = excessive drinking, casual sex, and/or drug abuse while partying
- They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.
Chpt 26
- Not the elegant prince of our debauched and vicious art, not the jeweled idol of our society churches—but the Jesus of the awful reality, the man of sorrow and pain, the outcast, despised of the world, who had nowhere to lay his head—
Chpt 31debauched = corrupted
Definition:
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(debauchery) excessive indulgence -- such as excessive drinking, casual sex, and/or drug abuse while partying -- possibly for an evening, but often implying a wasteful, decadent life