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  • noun Plural form of debauchee.

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Examples

  • If she's lumping in divorce with debauchery, then she's just called Ronald Reagan, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Rush Limbaugh debauchees.

    The Gay Recession 2009

  • We elect leaders, and while it might be argued that we could as well be led by frauds and debauchees so long as the facade of decency was preserved, it is not only for their moral example that we elect them.

    Private lives and the public interest - Andrew Coyne, Opinion - Macleans.ca 2010

  • The Uncle: Ted Kennedy, the U.S. senator from Massachusetts and Smith's uncle, was supposed to boost the prosecution's portrait of drunken debauchees gone wild that night.

    The Trial You Won't See 2008

  • Problem with that, such debaucher/debauchees would probably enjoy the S & M humiliation of the stocks.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • In the present day this practice is confined to regular debauchees.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Why did I find you but now brawling and quarrelling among the loudest of the brawlers and quarrellers of yonder idle and dissipated debauchees? —

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • At least part of the tract laid down his ideas on free love and his support for more liberal views of sexuality. 92 He intended the work to be both a scientific (physiological) work and a moral treatise; as such, he assured the reader that he was writing neither for the pleasure of "Libertines and debauchees!" nor for the consternation of "prudes and hypocrites!"

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • It was an enterprise of debauchees which it was easy to disconcert.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It is beyond doubt that this man, so immoderately praised as the restorer of morals and of laws, was long one of the most infamous debauchees in the Roman commonwealth.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Some exhausted debauchees have employed cantharides, which strongly affect the susceptible parts of the frame, and often produce severe and painful consequences.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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