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Definition
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay- At its height, Comrade Chin walks across the stage with a banner reading: "The Actor Renounces His Decadent Profession!"David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
decadent = having bad morals
- In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- Give them a few more years of decadent glory.Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- He was searching for 9 Park South, looking for the Beaumont Mansion, the site of D'Courtney's death... and Maria Beaumont, shrill, decadent, reassuring.Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
- He and Socrates are defending the Immortal Principle of the Cosmologists against what they consider to be the decadence of the Sophists.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- This is not the first time that a revanchist plot has been uncovered through the decadence of its architects.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- Then, like decadent Romans at Petronius's board, we took a walk and retired for the necessary and inevitable nap.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- She's not used to your decadent ways.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- The Christmas tree is starting to smell too rich, the spiced oranges sickly decadent.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- It had been her subjection to the decadence of feminine dress that had been unnatural.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- Or again, had he seen me and been silent out of sophistication, decadence, over-civilization?Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- Men who work for the disgraced English crown, that enfeebled, decadent government that sold out the Motherland to our tormentors.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- We don't get much of the old fighting in these decadent days.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- The more "Western," and therefore decadent, portions were distributing aggressively.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- Particularly the decadent dishes served in the Capitol.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- After a decadent lunch of goose sandwiches and chocolate pudding, Emma began to agitate for the older kids to go swimming.Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- It is redolent of the tawdry decadence of a far-flung but key imperial frontier.Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
- The softness of the dark seemed nearly decadent He returned to the camp and skinned the rabbit while water boiled over the fire.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- To be fair, it should be mentioned that the University had a vague contempt for Imre's populace, too, viewing them as self-indulgent and decadent.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- But first I spent some time, nine years at least, carrying out a community service by providing the one thing new Hyperion lacked: decadence.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion