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debauched

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verb

past tense of debauch

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of debauched
Adjective
The film follows a wealthy socialite and a struggling writer who are thrown together at a debauched party. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
The dark comedy follows a wealthy socialite, Stacy (Cherry), and a struggling writer, Becky (Chalotra), who are brought together at a lavish, debauched New York party. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debauched
Adjective
  • According to the latest 2024 Transparency International report, the Americas average 42 out of 100 points on a scale where 100 is very transparent and zero is very corrupt.
    Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • With the help of Landy and Nicky Parsons, Bourne goes up against Vosen (David Strathairn), the corrupt director of Operation Blackbriar.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In Nero’s time, stepping onto the stage degraded the emperor’s role.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Long-term drought has degraded the old-growth forest where the squirrels live.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But many Americans who don't meet the new criteria do still want to get vaccinated to avoid getting sick or spreading the virus to vulnerable family members.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Harry, who served in the British Armed Forces for 10 years, launched The Invictus Games in London in 2014 to honor active duty and veteran service members who have been wounded, injured or sick on the job.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Spacious walk-in closets, fresh flowers every day, and decadent soaking tubs add to the Ritz-Carlton feel.
    Amanda Eyre Ward, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Our family rode all the classic rides at Magic Kingdom, journeyed to France at EPCOT via Skyliner for a decadent breakfast, spotted hippos and lions on an open-air safari tour at Animal Kingdom, and roasted s’mores over a toasty campfire at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort.
    Linnea Bailey, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The baffling Windows 11 update bug that corrupted SSDs now appears to be linked to storage drives running pre-release firmware.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • We are absolutely not corrupted.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • Nick, a prequel to the original, offers us Carraway’s backstory as a soldier in World War I and a wanderer trying to find his way in a dissolute world.
    Danielle Teller, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, the concept has been perverted to mean higher-ed grandees' exclusive right to determine who participates in scholarly life.
    Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • All that to be humiliated in the Orlando bubble?
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Inter Miami, clearly humiliated, let out its frustrations after the final whistle, when several Miami players, led by Luis Suarez, got into a scuffle with Seattle players.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Debauched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debauched. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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