decadent
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Yet its parties, even at their most decadent and depraved, were never quite cool.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Consumption-fueled growth is seen, at best, as peculiarly American and, at worst, as decadent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Now the decadent bar has inspired South Korea's latest dessert craze.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
Some brilliant satire on the decadent Old South being cast before the unaware swine in the Night of Joy audience.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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