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Recent Examples of decadent
Adjective
Nearly next door is ButterPunk, a decadent new biscuit shop with both sweet and savory creations. Shayla Martin, AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025 After the finish line, its wood-oven pizzas or decadent tiramisu will hit the spot. Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 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
  • In his native Germany, he was reviled by the Nazis as a degenerate artist.
    Celia Bell July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • In a guest role that’s been extremely well hidden in the months leading up to the premiere, Bradley Cooper turns heel as Elijah Gemstone, a degenerate con man who sees right through Abel Grieves’s lucrative scam before plugging him in the forehead.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The story of corrupt small-town cops taking on a former Marine was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Delegates and party leaders described it as a corrupt and hypocritical maneuver from the governor.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Continue reading to shop more luxurious Wayfair social media creator furniture and decor selections, up to 72 percent off.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Big Sky, Montana Swift and Kelce have previously gone on romantic retreats to Big Sky – even being linked to the highly exclusive, members-only Yellowstone Club – so the couple could pick the luxurious mountain community as a serene wedding destination.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 4 Sep. 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
  • Developed by Toyota, the Sweep Energy Storage System rapidly switches each battery’s power flow on and off in mere microseconds, even when new batteries are connected to degraded or different capacity batteries.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Yet, as Beech pointed out, a lot of the material goods actually from the ‘70s are of a lower quality than earlier decades and also more degraded than the period relics of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The look’s holistic effect contrasted sensual styling on the top, with streamlined suited inspiration with the pants.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In between times, there are long shots of the gingko, tree’s-eye views of what is happening on the ground and squelching closeups of germinating seeds – luscious and inescapably sensual.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025

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