Debauchery : nf The word "debauchery" has several meanings:
- Aged meaning: Excessive use, deemed reprehensible, of pleasure sensual.
Disorder (of conduct), misconduct.
Indulge in debauchery.
Fall into debauchery.
Companions of debauchery.
Place of debauchery.
- Debauchery of backgammon (drinking, laughs, feast, drunkenness).
- Modern meaning: (literary or ironic) Excess of pleasure of the flesh (depravity, wanton, dissolution, intemperance, licentiousness, license, lust, vice).
Shameful debauchery (stupor, turpitude).
Locution: To live in debauchery (to lead the life of a chair stick, to wot, bombs).
Acts, part of debauchery (orgy).
- In the figurative sense: Excessive and improper use (of something) (abuse, excess, intemperance).
The author indulges in debauchery of the imagination.
A debauchery of ...: profusion (of what is overabundant and spread out): display, Luxury, orgy, glut.
A debauchery of colors.