decadent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɛkədənt/
decadent
- Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- Luxuriously self-indulgent.
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
- Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
- (luxuriously self-indulgent) sinful (colloquial)
- German: dekadent
decadent (plural decadents)
- A person affected by moral decay.
- L. Douglas
- He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
- L. Douglas
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