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a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures the biography of a debauchee who underwent a late-life religious conversion and became a monk

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Recent Examples of debauchee There's no entrance at all on the Elston side of the building, where its address is registered—just a metal wall with an assortment of small multicolored plastic letters with magnetic backs that invites passing debauchees to make word salad. Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debauchee
Noun
  • The interplay between pervert audience and chastising host is a delicate dance, as old as time.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Five states and Washington, D.C. have referendums next month that could profoundly change—and pervert—the way each conducts elections.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • On The Challenge: Battle of the Eras, these now-geriatric degenerates will duke it out for the only prize worth fighting for: making their kids proud.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
  • There’s the medieval brutality: Gómez was a homicidal degenerate who collected torture methods instead of stamps.
    Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • And then Mai meets Duong (Tuan Tran), a romantic playboy.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Ynez is an independent and rebellious woman who's close with her half-brother Constantine (Josh Heuston), a playboy whose reckless behavior causes problems.
    Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Then, to amplify the energy of the team’s famed Dawg Pound, the new stadium will have a soccer-style supporters section with a 34-degree rake—the steepest allowed in new construction—of safe standing, bringing the more than 6,700 standing-rail seats up against the northwest end zone.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Occasionally use a rake, shovel or pitchfork to stir up the pile.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Or even an appearance from Tom Holland’s Peter Parker that would mean two hours haven’t been wasted watching this forgettable origin tale of a villain who’s not really THAT bad.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Sony still had the film rights to multiple Spider-Man villains and side-characters, and thus, went to work building its own universe.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In turn, Vegas provides a playground where the average person and the hedonist can engage in the sublime, the superb and the spectacularly over-the-top.
    Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Both nights ended in surrender too as Prada’s heaving crowd of LA sybarites danced and drank with abandon: this was definitely far crazier and way more interesting than your average fashion party.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024
  • It was said to be situated at one of the portals to Shambhala — a mythical kingdom of peace and tranquillity in the Buddhist imagining — and had been founded in the century before by an artist, saint and sybarite called Danzanravjaa, known as the lama of the Gobi.
    Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023

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“Debauchee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debauchee. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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