Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who habitually indulges in debauchery or dissipation; a libertine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One addicted to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a habitually lewd or profligate person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Somebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint.
  • noun Person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

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Examples

  • The debauchee is less reliable than the merely careless.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • "debauchee," his existence is oddly sexless for long times at a stretch ... unless one counts building elaborate erotic implements as a "sex life."

    The Seattle Times 2008

  • I have to say I agree with the hungriest of kings, with emperors even, historians, composers, and with every sole debauchee known to man.

    diminish the moon Jerry Ratch 2011

  • She called me a 'music-sot,' once, a 'sound-debauchee.'

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • I was fascinated by his aura: a bit of a debauchee, he knew everyone, had been everywhere, had attended all possible fancy parties.

    Patrizia Chen: My First Tango 2010

  • Are they two different men, one a pillar of propriety who stares from a portrait, the other a debauchee and a rake?

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • Are they two different men, one a pillar of propriety who stares from a portrait, the other a debauchee and a rake?

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design —

    Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2 2009

  • When I said that I considered La Grange a great actor, he replied: “And a notorious debauchee.”

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • When I said that I considered La Grange a great actor, he replied: “And a notorious debauchee.”

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

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    March 25, 2012