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debauchery

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of debauchery

1 immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society
  • the fraternity brothers indulged in shameless debauchery all weekend
Synonyms of debauchery

corruption, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, sin, vice
Words Related to debauchery

bad, badness, blackness, evil, evildoing, ill, turpitude, villainy, wickedness, wrong

atrociousness, evilness, heinousness, sinfulness, unscrupulousness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness

devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness

corruptness, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, depravedness, dissoluteness, dissolution

indecency, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, wantonness

abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu)

criminality, reprehensibleness

baseness, despicableness, dirtiness, lowness, meanness

lousiness, miserableness, wretchedness
Near Antonyms of debauchery

good, right

honesty, honor, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness

goodness, righteousness, virtuousness

blamelessness

chastity, innocence, perfection, pureness, purity, spotlessness

cleanness, correctness, decency, decorousness, propriety, rightness, seemliness
Antonyms of debauchery

morality, virtue
2 a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior
  • the minister decried what he called the debauchery of todayʼs society
Synonyms of debauchery

abjection, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravity, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, perversion, pervertedness, rakishness, turpitude
Words Related to debauchery

evil, immorality, sinfulness, villainy, wickedness

filth, gangrene, rot, squalor
Near Antonyms of debauchery

goodness, morality, righteousness, virtue
3 excessive pursuit of fleshly pleasures
  • a night of drinking and debauchery at the gentleman's club
Synonyms of debauchery

carnality, hedonism, sensuality, sybaritism, voluptuousness
Words Related to debauchery

venery, wantonness

greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness

dissipation, gluttony, immoderation, intemperance, self-indulgence
Antonyms of debauchery

abstinence, asceticism, sobriety, temperance

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