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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

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