Crossword clues for decadent
decadent
- Ten years associated with heartless nest, corrupt
- After ten years, good books decaying
- Morally corrupt
- Wickedly enjoyable
- Beyond lavish
- Reflecting a state of moral decline
- Morally degenerate
- Like calorie-laden desserts
- Marked by moral collapse
- Luxuriously self-indulgent
- Lacking in moral vigour
- Going into decline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a. Decaying; deteriorating.
Decadent \De*ca"dent\, n. One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a certain school of modern French writers.
The decadents and [ae]sthetes, and certain types of
realists.
--C. L. Dana.
The business men of a great State allow their State to
be represented in Congress by ``decadents''.
--The
Century.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in a state of decline or decay (from a former condition of excellence)," 1837, from French décadent, back-formation from décadence (see decadence). In reference to literary (later, other artistic) schools that believed, or affected to believe, they lived in an age of artistic decadence, 1885 in French, 1888 in English. Usually in a bad sense:\n\n"Bread, supposedly the staff of life, has become one of our most decadent foods -- doughy, gummy, and without the aroma, flavor, texture, taste and appearance that is typical of good bread."
["College and University Business" 1960]
\nBeckoning sense of "desirable and satisfying to self-indulgence" begins c.1970 in commercial publications in reference to desserts.Wiktionary
a. 1 Characterized by moral or cultural decline. 2 Luxuriously self-indulgent. n. A person affected by moral decay.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: effete]
n. a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
Wikipedia
Decadent is British progressive metal band Threshold's first fan club album, released in 1999. The album features remixes and radio edits of songs from their previous albums, as well as one acoustic remake and one song that was hitherto only available on the Japanese release of Psychedelicatessen. The album was reissued in 2003 with modified CD artwork; it is now out of print but available for download on iTunes.
Three of the remixes on the album (Intervention 1999 remix, Devoted fan club remix and Into the Light 1999 remix) bear strong similarity to the versions of the songs produced for the 2001 reissue of Psychedelicatessen.
Several of the tracks on this album appear as easter eggs in the multimedia portions of the special edition reissues of Wounded Land and Psychedelicatessen.
Decadent is U.D.O.'s 15th studio album. It was released on January 23, 2015, in Europe and February 3, 2015, in the United States through AFM Records. On December 12, 2014, "Decadent" was released as its first single. Three weeks later, "Pain" was the second full length song to be released through YouTube.
Usage examples of "decadent".
Because, she replied in pictures, she believed that the worlds were becoming decadent under the anima, without much vigor, and she thought it would be more interesting under the animus.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duck-billed monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Herm wondered if the Expansionist Party knew that there were traitors in their midst, plotting for power over the decadent Federation.
You look to the safety of our borders, situated as we are, small and weak amid decadent and godless lands.
He kept it up and proceeded to her shoulders, and she had to admit that the most attractive part of a new love affair - or even a resumed one - was this: this decadent, hungerless gluttony.
My wife sticks up for him because she was at school with his mother, but of all the decadent useless young jackanapes Wants his behind kicked.
It was probably sheer irrational instinct which made us dim our single torch--tempted no longer by the decadent and sinister sculptures that leered menacingly from the oppressive walls--and which softened our progress to a cautious tiptoeing and crawling over the increasingly littered floor and heaps of debris.
Jet Mykles is a sensual feast of decadent delight and luscious intent.
The Puber still existed, somewhere, though now degenerate and decadent.
There are nations not blinded to Science, not given over hand and foot to effete snobocracies and Degenerate Decadents.
Tizbe must be a var-child from some big-city clan, so rich and decadent they pampered even their summerlings, kissing them on the brow and sending them off unequipped to survive past their first year.
In the mild bright afternoon it had seemed an innocent place, silent, tenantless, gently decadent.
Diskan had seen his like at the space ports, a Veep from some decadent trade world, but to see such a man here was a surprise.
Or it could be seen as a study of the ironies of originality, a novel that asserts its own originality the moment its first line copies another, and then evokes the breathless, unprecedented newness of falling in love - in a world already dense with allusion and echo, a decadent endgame Eden.