bacchanal
Example Sentences
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The best it can do for jokes is endless animal wordplay—a road sign reading “Gnu Jersey,” a bacchanal dubbed “Burning Mammal.”
Then came revelations that the headquarters was all but turned into a personal bacchanal, with women coming forth in depositions and congressional hearings to courageously tell in public how they were harassed.
From Washington Post
As far back as 1997, he whisked the justice to the all-male bacchanal of elites known as the Bohemian Grove, in the redwoods north of San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite daily testing protocols and mask mandates, the reality of filming concerts with hundreds of extras, hookup scenes and booze-and-Quaalude-fueled bacchanals had taken a toll.
From New York Times
Many historians believe the holiday has origins in a raucous Roman bacchanal.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
