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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
  • In one of many tonally jarring subplots, Vince works out a scam to burn down his dead mother’s house in Brooklyn to collect the insurance money with the help of a corrupt fire marshal.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, disease and human activity, such as pollution, have severely degraded Florida's reefs, according to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Which is good news, because there’s no question that the general imaginative environment has degraded significantly.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But as that incident demonstrated, even a small number of controllers calling in sick can have a big impact.
    Joel Rose, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Austin Hedges gets sick to his stomach before postseason games.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 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
  • The Cheesecake Factory, which has had smaller, low-calorie versions of its decadent entrées on its menu since 2011, expanded its value options this summer in hopes of reversing negative traffic trends.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Rich, decadent, and full of flavor, the most popular recipe this month is Million Dollar Meatloaf.
    Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Democrats and civil libertarians said Trump corrupted the system of justice by getting involved.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, what that sets up, in the game of Survivor, is someone ready to be corrupted.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 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

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“Debauched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debauched. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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