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Definition
excessive drinking, casual sex, and/or drug abuse while partying — possibly for an evening, but often implying a wasteful, decadent life
- The whole town is echoing with his debaucheries.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (65% in)
- While he was wearying every one with his tears and complaints, and turning his house into a sink of debauchery, a faithful servant of the family, Grigory, took the three-year-old Mitya into his care.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (12% in)
- But if his father had remembered him (he could not, indeed, have been altogether unaware of his existence) he would have sent him back to the cottage, as the child would only have been in the way of his debaucheries.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (13% in)
- He gathered loose women into his house, and carried on orgies of debauchery in his wife's presence.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (25% in)
- Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (47% in)
- At such moments he liked to feel that there was near at hand, in the lodge if not in the room, a strong, faithful man, virtuous and unlike himself, who had seen all his debauchery and knew all his secrets, but was ready in his devotion to overlook all that, not to oppose him, above all, not to reproach him or threaten him with anything, either in this world or in the next, and, in case of need, to defend him—from whom?Book 3 — The Sensualists (2% in)
- To a monster who, though he is betrothed and all eyes are fixed on him, can't restrain his debaucheries—and before the very eyes of his betrothed!Book 3 — The Sensualists (37% in)
- To sink into debauchery, to stifle your soul with corruption, yes?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (74% in)
- Drunkenness, debauchery and devilry were what we almost prided ourselves on.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (30% in)
- "I plead guilty to drunkenness and dissipation," he exclaimed, again in a startling, almost frenzied, voice, "to idleness and debauchery.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (6% in)
- Neither in drunken debauchery in taverns, nor when he was flying into the country, trying to get from God knows whom, the money so essential to him to remove the object of his affections from being tempted by his father, did he bring himself to touch that little bag!Book 12 — A Judicial Error (45% in)
- That lady, who had long watched his career with compassion, gave him the most judicious advice, to give up his dissipated life, his unseemly love-affair, the waste of his youth and vigor in pot-house debauchery, and to set off to Siberia to the gold-mines: 'that would be an outlet for your turbulent energies, your romantic character, your thirst for adventure.'Book 12 — A Judicial Error (50% in)
There are no more uses of "debauchery" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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