Decadent (album)
WordNet
adjective
(1) 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"
noun
(2) A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
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Etymology
, from , from , present participle of . Cognate with French
Adjective
- Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- 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.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- Luxuriously self-indulgent.
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
- Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings