debauch

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Debauch didn’t do much in two starts on the synthetic surface at Golden Gate but is trained by Tim McCanna, the all-time leading trainer at Emerald.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2014

Debauch Sirs: It is perfectly possible for an American woman to go to even the worst places in Paris and compel respect for American ideals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Death she defies, Debauch she smiles upon, For their sharp scythe-like talons every one Pass by her in their all-destructive play; Leaving her beauty till a later day.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

And here Mr. Dryden: The first Physicians by Debauch were made; Excess began, and Sloth sustain’d the Trade.

From Medicina Flagellata Or, The Doctor Scarify'd by Anonymous

Be Gen'rous and Well-bred, but not Profuse; Not giv'n to Flattery, nor to take th' Abuse: Gentile his Carriage, and his Humour such, Shou'd speak him Sociable, but no Debauch.

From The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony by Anonymous