(a) decadent

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decadent
A person affected by moral decay
decadent
Luxuriously self-indulgent

Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!.

decadent
Characterized by moral or cultural decline

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

decadent
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals
decadent
{i} one who is depraved or immoral, corrupt person
decadent
Decaying; deteriorating
decadent
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
decadent
applied to a certain school of modern French writers
decadent
One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp
decadent
{s} depraved, corrupt, immoral, self-indulgent
decadent
one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; specif
decadent
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
decadent
disapproval If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure. the excesses and stresses of their decadent rock 'n' roll lifestyles. + decadence deca·dence The empire had for years been falling into decadence. having low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than serious matters
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