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debauchery

How to use debauchery in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for debauchery.

Editorial note

Living a life of debauchery can happen just as easily with much much less than a million bucks.

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Quick take

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for debauchery.

Example sentences

1

Living a life of debauchery can happen just as easily with much much less than a million bucks.

2

I saw that Path are on there and, given their recent debauchery involving people's privacy, my heart sank.

3

Facebook gets people laid and lets you participate in more debauchery online once you have stumbled home drunk from the bar.

4

But I do those things because I turned 30 and realized 9 years of random debauchery and no exercise do not do much for ones health and figure.

5

My parents would have wine and beer with their meals and it never turned into a drunken debauchery as many American expect it to.

6

But for the last X years I’ve been doing… um… well… just pure debauchery.”Having been at companies in growth mode, I know that there are really few good candidates out there.

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I think that one was more to do with their unfortunate use of the phrase "destroy america," which in UK parlance can mean "to disrupt with heavy drinking and debauchery.

8

The opposite of "family values" is not "debauchery", despite what religious extremists would have you believe.

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I'm a different person at work with my phone than I am at home or at a pub. I don't want to clutter my gallery at work with thumbnail pictures of last week-end debauchery, though I do want to see the whiteboard pics I took every day after each design meeting.

10

Fighting for the eight-hour workday amounted to fighting against this perception.> The eight-hour day, another said, would encourage "loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery, and drunkenness.

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I wonder if the frat house culture, the opulent office, the drink up debauchery and the "holacracy" may create a delusional sense of grandiosity that permeates from the company level to the employee?

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use debauchery in a sentence?

Living a life of debauchery can happen just as easily with much much less than a million bucks.

What does debauchery mean?

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

What part of speech is debauchery?

debauchery is commonly used as noun.