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Characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline
“This decadent culture, which is openly projected in our media, promotes violence, drug addiction, gangsterism, and promiscuity.”
Luxuriously hedonistic or self-indulgent
“Grab your swimsuits and get ready for a day of decadent indulgence.”
No longer capable, effective or desirable
“Tyrants and would-be tyrants have always claimed that free men and women are weak and decadent, until the day that free men and women defeat them.”
Immoral, unprincipled or evil in nature
Indifferent or hostile to religion, or having no religious beliefs
Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy
No longer capable, effective or needed
Very delicious or appetizing to taste
A licentious, dissolute person
“This play is his best because it represents the true Wilde, not a perverse decadent, or a hypocrite who coats offensive themes in conventional pap, but a witty humorist.”
A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury
“He becomes a prose writer who poeticizes, a dreamer who thinks, a mystic who doesn't believe, a decadent who doesn't indulge.”
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