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verb

past tense of debauch

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Recent Examples of debauched
Adjective
His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 June 2026 Firstman stars as Peter, a debauched millennial aging out of a New York scene that never cared about him as a person in the first place. Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026 But unlike, say, Sheridan, who is interested in offering the down-home, traditional values of the Southwest as a positive alternative to coastal-élite liberalism, there’s no real upside to the debauched, unbridled world that Levinson presents. Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026 The sun shines on the empty wine bottles and related detritus of last night’s debauched party. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026 The script, penned by Bartek Bartosik and Naqqash Khalid, becomes bizarrely moralistic by the end, insinuating that the debased and debauched might perhaps see their problems solved by becoming domesticated. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2026 In a major change from the book, the period drama opens at a debauched public hanging, where a young Catherine Earnshaw (Charlotte Mellington) looks on as a man dangles from a noose. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026 There were months of speculation that Sam Levinson’s debauched series—about teenagers getting up to stuff no parent ever wants to know about—wouldn’t be able to get off the ground for a third run thanks to the new star power and busy schedules of its cast (Zendaya! Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025 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
And regular Kate Moss’s turn on the decks one memorable, and debauched, night in 2015 had revelers literally swinging from the chandeliers. Nick Scott, Robb Report, 13 June 2026 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
  • Harry and the six other high-profile claimants failed to prove their allegations that the publisher unlawfully obtained private information through methods including private investigators, deception, phone hacking and corrupt payments.
    Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • After all, this was FIFA, the infamously corrupt governing body of international soccer that seems to function not based on its rulebook but on the whims of a few guys in a room.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • Perhaps, then, what captivates us is a kind of redemption story—the seductive idea that technology can not only repair nature but absolve us for having degraded it.
    Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
  • Israel’s military campaigns have significantly degraded Hezbollah, while public opinion in Lebanon has increasingly turned against the group, blaming it for repeatedly dragging the country into unnecessary wars.
    Anthony Wanis-St John, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
Adjective
  • If a sick animal did end up at a slaughterhouse, the US Department of Agriculture’s thorough meat inspection system would very likely spot it, separate it from others and deem it US Suspect.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • But when McGinley was a teen-ager, Michael became sick with AIDS and moved home to New Jersey.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • Online court records show he is charged with first-degree murder dangerous depraved without premeditation.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Murdering a teenaged iconic athlete shows how deeply depraved the Iranian leadership is.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Vanilla wafer cookies provide a fun and unexpected crust that holds up decadent, creamy layers of chocolate and vanilla.
    Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • The book-length poem, set at a private party, explores the decadent lifestyles associated with the movie industry in California in the 1920s.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • The unsightly mushroom could have corrupted her maids’ morals, or even their health.
    Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026
  • If religion is corrupted by breaking down the wall of separation, much the same is true of the state.
    Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Adjective
  • His untimely death set the template for the doomed, dissolute musician.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • First filmed before the pandemic and launched in its throes, a survivor of the era of streaming wars, corporate consolidation and Hollywood strikes, HBO’s addictively dissolute workplace drama remains as ambitious and authoritative as ever.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • More important to Bernstein is what that lust reveals about her characters’ deepest needs, specifically how their need to care and be cared for can be as easily perverted as any other form of desire.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
  • Georgia Bernstein’s unsettling directorial debut focuses on how warped and perverted those desires become when they’re taken to their insatiable extremes.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

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