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Recent Examples of decadent
Adjective
Add in chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, or caramel sauce for a decadent dessert. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025 There’s even a little Kurosawa — from all the stages of his career — in the feudal set-up; while the decadent emperor Kisra (Ben Kingsley) holds court, his enemies are banished. Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
My vision was to create a grab-and-go option that’s a little bit decadent without being a total sugar bomb. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025 For dessert, the most decadent is chocolate dumplings with raspberry caramel and sea salt countering the sweetness. Constance Ogle, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for decadent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decadent
Adjective
  • Like people, joints naturally degenerate over time, and arthritis is particularly common in older pets.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In his native Germany, he was reviled by the Nazis as a degenerate artist.
    Celia Bell July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Our institutions are failing us — either corrupt or underfunded, gutted and useless — and we’re absorbed with stories of characters that manage to save themselves, and on their own terms.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • That failure was on corrupt leadership.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The seven-piece Horsebit Colleciton includes five bottoms and two jackets that are decorated with luxurious hardware for a polished edge.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Where would his luxurious effort last night rank in terms of another award that does not exist, namely the greatest-ever assist in the Champions League?
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • What follows is a floor-by-floor descent into madness as Bobby battles bloodthirsty perverts, demonic flash mobs, and hallucinogenic suburban nightmares, all while trying to figure out if he’s meant to be the hero… or just the last guy standing.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This version of Trump is a lawsuit-happy hedonist who is literally in bed with Satan (in South Park, Satan is something of a lost soul, often ending up in abusive relationships).
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • What we’re left with is an effete description that exists for itself and doesn’t illuminate the character.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Cutaways to bits involving sad-sack local cop Maccarico (Marco Bonadei) interviewing kooky characters like an effete server (Milutin Dapcevic) at Taco King and Oreste getting a dressing down from his ex-wife, Arabella’s Mother (Margareth Made), just feel like mildly amusing filler.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, suicide-attack FPVs incorporate AI navigation for autonomous terminal guidance under degraded control.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Under her leadership, the NYBG’s research team has expanded to 81 projects across 79 countries to conserve disappearing plant species, restore degraded ecosystems, and breed crops to withstand drought, sea level rise and extreme heat under climate change.
    Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bieber’s iteration on the trend elevated the style to a cheeky, high-fashion moment with feminine touches and sensual edge.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For the sensual and aesthetically-inclined Libras, Atlas says a hobby like candle making is a match made in heaven.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Decadent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decadent. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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