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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
  • Next in line for the crown is Falcone’s playboy son, Alberto (Michael Zegen), who despite being more of a Fredo Corleone than a Michael is supported by allies like family underboss Johnny Vitti (Michael Kelly).
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • His peeling of bills from stacks of funny money, or tossing that faux cash into the audience, further reinforced his persona as a high-rolling playboy.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Growing microgreens outdoors in a garden requires a similar procedure: Smooth out existing soil in your garden with a rake.
    Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Lyn handed me a hollow yellow rake that looked more like a child’s beach toy than a tool.
    Avery Keatley, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Marlena’s John is an iconic hero, and unfailingly rescuing her from all matter of villains.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 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 21 Nov. 2024.

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