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 isdissolute 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
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The debauchee is less reliable than the merely careless.
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"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
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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
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She called me a 'music-sot,' once, a 'sound-debauchee.'
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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I was fascinated by his aura: a bit of a debauchee, he knew everyone, had been everywhere, had attended all possible fancy parties.
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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
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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
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Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design —
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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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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
Louises commented on the word debauchee
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March 25, 2012