Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay.
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Examples for "decadent "
Examples for "decadent "
1 Shopping trips to New York, for example, are completely decadent and wasteful.
2 It was quite the scene, the decadent Last Days all over again.
3 But Pamela knew that others saw her family as decadent , careless, unfeeling.
4 The same decadent financial and ownership system is in part to blame.
5 Possibly the papaw may be decadent in respect to morals and politics.
1 She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea.
2 In the effete societies it's love, in our new one it's business.
3 An effete snot from one of the Core planets, do you think?
4 The effete morality of a printed book was no tie upon him.
5 Nothing human is wholly sad, until it is effete and dying out.
6 Skeptics of France consider that type effete , and unworthy of their support.
7 You've been listening to too much of this woman's effete , antihuman intellectualism.
8 Russia has no use for an effete ally such as England is.
9 They considered his campaign annoying and perhaps his Carnegie Hall manner too effete .
10 Nothing stirred me; the machinery which had agitated and controlled me was effete .
11 The reinforcements arrived thinking of themselves as saviors of an effete , decadent north.
12 The effete Egyptian Empire was hovering upon the verge of collapse.
13 He was a tall, studiedly effete fellow in starkly coloured New Romantic silks.
14 If he represented the type of his race, it had certainly grown effete .
15 Since the war they have been effete as regards serious crime.
16 This is regarded by many as an old-fashioned and effete theory.
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