debauchery

De Palma paints pictures that don’t conflict so much as they coexist, like two sides of a coin — purity and debauchery, the real, politically sanctioned currencies of this country — fresh from the U.S.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

“Something a little more wholesome than the debauchery of downtown,” says John Ingram, chairman of the Ingram Industries conglomerate and owner of the pro-soccer team Nashville SC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

He’s since come to realize that he’d been wrestling with complex feelings, “which were childhood feelings,” and much of the debauchery of his past was about “looking for community and looking for connection.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Yet, despite the agonizing debauchery and hedonism spewing from movies, TV and music, recent events and proclamations from mainstream stars show just how brilliantly light can break through even the darkest corners of our culture.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Dubbed the nation’s most eligible bachelor, Vanderbilt eschewed the debauchery that would have tempted other men fresh out of their teens and into a bottomless bank account.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

As the guardian of Soviet morality, junior grade, the Communist Party youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda frequently berates students for hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists.

From Time Magazine Archive

The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. is still a long way from the rugged debaucheries of Restoration England or the perfumed corruption of the Gallant Century in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the deadly bewilderments and debaucheries of recent history have shown, this problem is enough to tax to the limit the minds and energies that would propose to solve it.

From Time Magazine Archive

But perhaps it is not to Titian, but to Tintoret and Paul Cagliari, that the debaucheries of colour, and blind submission to fascinating tints, the rage of scattering flowers to no purpose, are ascribed.

From Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. by John Burnet