debauched
/dɪˈbɔːtʃt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
verb
simple past and past participle of debauch
Example Sentences
- "When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage."
- "He was a man made for the exteremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/