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as in sensualist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures the biography of a debauchee who underwent a late-life religious conversion and became a monk

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Recent Examples of debauchee There's no entrance at all on the Elston side of the building, where its address is registered—just a metal wall with an assortment of small multicolored plastic letters with magnetic backs that invites passing debauchees to make word salad. Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debauchee
Noun
  • Just when things are looking up — a haughty British couple leaves this daughter of Oxfordshire a handsome tip — the dinner pervert turns up for his morning coffee.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Outside the courthouse on Friday, Toner’s lawyer made a brief statement about his pervert client.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Those who hold advanced degrees in mathematics and analytics, or your favorite degenerate gambler, know any piece of datum is only reliant on the trove of data that occurred previously.
    Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
  • This 24-hour dive near Uptown is for true degenerates looking to extend the party to unholy hours.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The previous movies focused on a rich playboy who steals art.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
  • What to order: Go ahead and get that $16 playboy roll.
    Arika Herron, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • By the time the father and son arrived on scene to help, the three men had used crab rakes to move the shark into deeper water, according to ABC.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 1 May 2025
  • Then clear larger leaves and debris with a rake and push broom.
    Kara McGinley, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps this is why it was never required viewing in my household; there was no darker notion than our hero potentially being a villain.
    Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • But the new villain is smarter than the IMF assumed, and the mission has disastrous results.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Her Daphne was a realist, a hedonist and, like Fahy, a great hang.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • The Weeknd discography plays like one big party with noxious vibes, thrown by a hedonist less interested in a good time than numbing the torment of an existence comprising coke-and-sizzurp binges, emotionless supermodel threeways, and morning-afters of bleak reflection.
    Charles Bramesco, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.
    Lindsay Cohn, Robb Report, 20 May 2025
  • What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 May 2025

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“Debauchee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debauchee. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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