Luxuriously self-indulgent

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.