debauched

Etymology

adj

  1. Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
    When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage. 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, The Author's Preface
    He was a man made for the exteremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic. 1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of debauch

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