Sample Sentences for
debauchery
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    Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class.  (source)
    debauchery = behavior involving excessive drinking and/or casual sex
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    ...he had associated with the most horrible people, and rushed into the most senseless debauchery.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    debauchery = excessive drinking while partying
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    ...but you will admit that debauchery, drunkenness, and the captain's widow, all these together may lead him very far.  (source)
    debauchery = behavior involving excessive drinking and/or casual sex
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    When reason returned with the morning--when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch--I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.  (source)
    debauch = excessive drinking and corruption
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    She would have been perfect for Yossarian, a debauched, coarse, vulgar, amoral, appetizing slattern whom he had longed for and idolized for months.†  (source)
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    What, you talk of debaucheries, Madame Messalina, Lady Macbeth!†  (source)
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    For memories, he had one or two marijuana parties, one or two community debauches, one or two girls whose names he had forgotten, one or two addresses which he had lost.†  (source)
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    I never went out a fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauch'd me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and, to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchas'd at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.†  (source)
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    And if I am my dead grandfather on the instant of his death, then my wife, his grandson's wife ...the debaucher and murderer of my grandson's wife, since I could neither let my grandson live or die ...†  (source)
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    This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard.†  (source)
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    He stopped at the crossing; and repeated—being simple by nature, and undebauched, because he had tramped, and shot; being pertinacious and dogged, having championed the downtrodden and followed his instincts in the House of Commons; being preserved in his simplicity yet at the same time grown rather speechless, rather stiff—he repeated that it was a miracle that he should have married Clarissa; a miracle—his life had been a miracle, he thought; hesitating to cross.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undebauched means not and reverses the meaning of debauched. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And so the developments became havens of debauchery.†  (source)
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