DEBAUCHERY in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for DEBAUCHERY, such as:

1. The guy gets a moral defeat and plunges into debauchery.
2. His zest in debauchery might wane, but never Mrs. Cutter's belief in it.
3. The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEBAUCHERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
debauchery
 n.  corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance; excessive indulgence of the appetites, especially, excessive indulgence of lust
Classic Sentence:
1  His zest in debauchery might wane, but never Mrs. Cutter's belief in it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
2  And then because of his memories and his shame, he was glad when others joined them, men and women; and they had more drink and spent the night in wild rioting and debauchery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  This ball was held in a big dance hall, and was one of the occasions when the city's powers of debauchery gave themselves up to madness.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
4  "Wide open" gambling and debauchery made the city pleasing to "trade," but burglaries and holdups did not.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
5  And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
6  They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a maid to marry her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX
7  The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
8  And afterwards, how he had all at once broken out: he had associated with the most horrible people, and rushed into the most senseless debauchery.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 24
9  The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
Example Sentence:
1  The guy gets a moral defeat and plunges into debauchery.
2  In his youth he led a life of lechery and debauchery; he did not mend his ways until middle age.