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单词 decadent
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decadent

The characters of these poems forlornly look for redemption in a decadent society on the edge of collapse.Blend glamour and glitz with decadent style.His father frittered away millions on a decadent lifestyle.Raúl experiences a stifling home life in what already feels like a hopelessly backward and decadent society.It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody.Is not the very fact that leisure has become a subject of study a sure sign of a decadent society?Modern Western styles of art and literature were attacked as decadent.Convinced that modern society was decadent, he was all for the noble savage.I think they are the symbol of a decadent and corrupt regime.Seeing as we were about to become bona fide artists at our next class, it seemed suitably decadent.Our style is decadent and tongue-in-cheek.A fugitive gangster takes refuge in a decadent rock star's London home.Measure for Measure is about an extremely decadent society, where the politicians charged with cleaning it up are perhaps more corrupt than the society.

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decadent

British English: decadent ADJECTIVE
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 lifestyles.
  • American English: decadent
  • Brazilian Portuguese: decadente
  • Chinese: 堕落的
  • European Spanish: decadente
  • French: décadent
  • German: dekadent
  • Italian: decadente
  • Japanese: 頽廃的な
  • Korean: 퇴폐적인
  • European Portuguese: decadente
  • Latin American Spanish: decadente

(adjective) 
the excesses of their decadent rock `n' roll lifestyles
Synonyms
degenerate
the degenerate attitudes he found among some of his fellow officers
abandoned
corrupt
corrupt politicians who took bribes
degraded
morally degraded individuals
immoral
It is immoral to persist with a system that impoverishes so many people.
self-indulgent
depraved
It has been condemned as the most depraved film of its kind.
debased
a dysfunctional and morally debased organization
debauched
a debauched circus performer in nineteenth-century Poland
dissolute
She regretted her dissolute life.
Opposites
good
,
principled
,
moral
,
decent
,
proper
,
ethical
,
upright
,
honourable
,
virtuous
,
high-minded
,
upstanding
,
incorruptible

Additional synonyms

in the sense of abandoned
Synonyms
depraved,
corrupt,
dissipated,
wicked,
sinful,
wanton,
profligate,
debauched,
dissolute,
reprobate
in the sense of corrupt
Definition
open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices
corrupt politicians who took bribes
Synonyms
dishonest,
bent (slang),
crooked (informal),
rotten,
shady (informal),
fraudulent,
unscrupulous,
unethical,
venal,
unprincipled,
bribable
in the sense of debased
a dysfunctional and morally debased organization
Synonyms
degraded,
corrupt,
fallen,
low,
base,
abandoned,
perverted,
vile,
sordid,
depraved,
debauched,
scungy (Australian, New Zealand)

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