decadent
Example Sentences
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Yet its parties, even at their most decadent and depraved, were never quite cool.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
As for why the exhibition landed in L.A. for its second showing, Hewlett compares the city to Shanghai when it was “still free and decadent and swinging.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Now the decadent bar has inspired South Korea's latest dessert craze.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
I usually order a ribeye at similar restaurants, but our server highly recommended the filet mignon flight, which was positively decadent.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026
I wanted, however, something more from the new middle-class institution than either the decadent romanticism of the sixties or the careerism of the seventies.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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