debauchee

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Beware of love, for it is worse than disease for a debauchee, and it is ridiculous.

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  1. noun A person who habitually indulges in debauchery or dissipation; a libertine.

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  • Aristotle he called a debauchee and a glutton, saying that he joined the army after he had squandered his patrimony, and sold drugs. —  The Life of Epicurus
  • "But our Lord was not a louche debauchee, and did not compose the Scriptures with an eye toward giving himself as wide a latitude for misbehavior as he could find." —  AnalogSFF,May2006
  • Not only was he not then in London the profligate debauchee, the reckless madcap, the creature of "vassal fear and base inclination," "the nearest and dearest of his father's foes;" not only was he acting valiantly in defence of his father's throne; but that very father's own pen is the instrument to bear chief testimony to his valour and noble merits at that very hour. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
  • Every one of them Lucius Ahenobarbus was a debauchee, a mere creature of pleasure, without principle or character; but even he had a revulsion of spirit at the hardly masked proposal of the enthusiastic Greek. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
  • Perhaps this led him to write a comedy, entitled The Cutter of Coleman Street_, in which he severely censured the license and debaucheries of the court: this made the arch-debauchee, the king himself, cold toward the poet, who at once issued A Complaint_; but neither satire nor complaint helped him to the desired preferment. —  English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
 

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  1. from French débauché (later Italian debosciato), properly past participle of débaucher, debauch: see debauch.
 

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