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as in pervert
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
the debauchees that are legendarily found at any fraternity party
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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.
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Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debauchee
Noun
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Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
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You are being spied on by a pervert.—
Jay Ruttenberg,
New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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In all vertebrates, the thymus degenerates very rapidly with age.—
Mallory Locklear,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Based on characters created by author James Patterson, the show stars Aldis Hodge as the titular detective who, in Season 2, worked to solve the murder of a billionaire playboy.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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Young courtesan wannabe Gigi (Leslie Caron) and Parisian playboy Gaston (Louis Jourdan) see each other as just friends, until romance intercedes in the musical confection.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Remove thick, dense piles of wet and matted leaves, or consider gently fluffing them up with a rake.—
Heather Zidack,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2026
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Use a regular rake to clean up and remove the dislodged debris and dispose of it.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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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
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These are unhappy hedonists, boozing and fornicating for lack of fulfillment.—
Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Another cousin, the son of my industrialist uncle, has given up regattas and the hedonist’s life for a position in his father’s company that is, like all companies in Turkey, faltering under the tremendous burden of an economy in tailspin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Robb Report,
20 May 2025
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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 22 Mar. 2026.
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