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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
  • Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General, resigned -- resigned rather than carry out the corrupt orders of the president.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Eric Adams, who started his career as a transit cop, was undone in part by his dealings with corrupt old friends from the department.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the following two years, the Israel Defense Forces severely degraded several of its archenemies, including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Iran’s military and nuclear program.
    Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In February of the next year, Wilson hosted a White House screening of The Birth of a Nation, the controversial 1915 film that degraded African American characters played by white actors in black face and depicted the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.
    Time, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Only sea stars injected with Vibrio pectenicida, or with material from sick sea stars, showed signs of disease.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Aquarium’s Rescue and Rehabilitation team also spends several months every year caring for sick and injured green sea turtles at its Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • DiCaprio has played disturbed and depraved individuals in Scorsese’s films before, but Killers of the Flower Moon is something different.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Imagine crumbling a slice into a glass of frothed milk and espresso, or layering it with a scoop of ice cream for a decadent twist; the possibilities are endless.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Adding a milk frother to your coffee accessories arsenal is the difference between a standard cup of coffee and something decadent.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Files were easily lost or corrupted.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As a model named Carl, stuck in a relationship corrupted by microcelebrity and Instagram view counts, Dickinson ticks with exasperation and sarcastic logic, his jaw clenched, his eyes wide and staring.
    Carrie Battan, Vulture, 6 Oct. 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

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