debauch

Heiner Müller, the experimental German playwright who specialized in grimly absurdist Shakespeare rewrites, refashioned “Titus Andronicus” as a postmodern, postcolonial debauch.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2019

“I did really debauch myself to achieve a visual at the time” is how he remembers it.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2016

We’ve not had a debasement of the currency, a debauch of the exchange rate, so those fears and warnings aren’t all that well founded.

From Forbes ● Feb. 13, 2015

Lastly, the Gabfest crew takes a look at Google’s new smartphone for your face, Google Glass: Will it extend our human powers or finally debauch them for good?

From Slate ● May 22, 2013

All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous debauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves, bones, and skin.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Good ideas are kept out of circulation because they are concealed by highbrow language, whereas lowbrow journalism debauches American speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the devil thrives in proportion, is always ready to enrich the rich man with ruin, the wise man with folly, the beautiful woman with degradation, the kind, average man with debauches of savagery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other practically sure signs of neurosis: fear of not being able to draw a deep breath, burning in the abdomen, repeated belching, stomachaches after "emotional debauches," "distresses that come before breakfast."

From Time Magazine Archive

Inflation, of course, debauches a currency by reducing its purchasing power.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could imagine that she had found Harrisburg insuperably dull, the hours with only Cherette empty after the emotional debauches of the plays elected by Vivian Blane.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

The dissolute, debauched Lucius might have proved a challenge for Marcus in the long run, but illness carried him off after eight years in power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

Sylvanian Families has become embroiled in a legal battle with a TikTok creator who makes comedic videos of the children's toys in dark and debauched storylines.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

As the manager of Guns N’ Roses during the band’s debauched heyday, Alan Niven has no shortage of colorful stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

From their earliest shared Lunchables through debauched bachelorette parties right up to the Golden Girls years, women bond with intensity.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025

Horrible, debauched, mouth limp and cracked, loose against the teeth as an ancient dog’s.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Germany, haunted by the experience of hyperinflation in 1923 and after World War Two, is deeply fearful of debauching the central bank by printing money to lend to governments.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2011

The graver peril is that the precious-metals fever will sap more and more confidence in paper money, debauching its value.

From Time Magazine Archive

His novel is a grotesque, exciting and impudent tale of student ribaldry, army debauching and mystic romance.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hope that your taste would keep you aloof from the writings of those detestable villains, who employ the powers of their mind in debauching the minds of others, or in endeavours to do it.

From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

But this debauching furnace of a climate! no man can keep his muscle, or his courage, or his money, or anything else in it.

From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley