Definition of debaucheenext
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as in sensualist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures the biography of a debauchee who underwent a late-life religious conversion and became a monk

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Recent Examples of debauchee There's no entrance at all on the Elston side of the building, where its address is registered—just a metal wall with an assortment of small multicolored plastic letters with magnetic backs that invites passing debauchees to make word salad. Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debauchee
Noun
  • Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
  • You are being spied on by a pervert.
    Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Things don’t go well, resulting in a Lord of the Flies–esque battle between, among others, Jude Law’s idealist and Ana de Armas’s shameless sensualist.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The film would eventually gross more than $16 million worldwide while securing Wong’s reputation as one of cinema’s great sensualists.
    Gregg Kilday, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • The product exploded, generating trillions and minting a new class of crypto degenerates who were willing to take massive risks that, occasionally, resulted in millions.
    Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In all vertebrates, the thymus degenerates very rapidly with age.
    Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The previous movie focused on a rich playboy who steals art.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In one of the musical’s many stomach-turning late developments, its resident rake, a bisexual playboy played by Claybourne Elder (doing better after his carriage accident), sets his sights on a 14-year-old girl who has slipped into the party from Poughkeepsie (Maya Rowe) and tries to rape her.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Rodney Drinkard, 63, rolled up his sleeves and grabbed a rake, piling mulch into a wheelbarrow.
    Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Old rakes, spoons and other tools can also find new roles in the garden.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Nothing important happens in this movie, which the Italian voluptuary Luca Guadagnino directed and yet, being as manically alive as Mr. Fiennes is here has to count for something.
    WESLEY MORRIS, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
Noun
  • And what fame gave me, what addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And what fame gave me and what my addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.
    Lindsay Cohn, Robb Report, 20 May 2025
  • What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 May 2025

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“Debauchee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debauchee. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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