Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who habitually indulges in debauchery or dissipation; a libertine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One addicted to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a habitually lewd or profligate person.
Wiktionary
- n. Somebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint.
- n. Person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
Examples
“The debauchee is less reliable than the merely careless.”
“debauchee," his existence is oddly sexless for long times at a stretch ... unless one counts building elaborate erotic implements as a "sex life.”
“She called me a 'music-sot,' once, a 'sound-debauchee.”
“I have to say I agree with the hungriest of kings, with emperors even, historians, composers, and with every sole debauchee known to man.”
“I was fascinated by his aura: a bit of a debauchee, he knew everyone, had been everywhere, had attended all possible fancy parties.”
“Are they two different men, one a pillar of propriety who stares from a portrait, the other a debauchee and a rake?”
“Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design —”
“When I said that I considered La Grange a great actor, he replied: “And a notorious debauchee.””
““The Hermit of Peking” by Hugh Trevor-Roper — the story of an orientalist charlatan/debauchee grippingly and drolly told by a great historian and prose stylist.”
“She is my only child, and the grave should have her sooner than a debauchee, But”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘debauchee’.
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Interesting words
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
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Pursue bliss
Words for those who believe everyday should be your day in the sun. Follow your bliss!
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dickinsonian
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SoSheShall's list
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
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Eloquent Words
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