Crossword clues for debauchee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debauchee \Deb`au*chee"\, n. [F. d['e]bauch['e], n., properly p. p. of d['e]baucher. See Debauch, v. t.] One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French débauché "debauched (person)," noun use of past participle of debaucher (see debauch).\n Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]
Wiktionary
n. 1 Somebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint. 2 Person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
WordNet
Usage examples of "debauchee".
Indeed, he showed evidences of having been a gross debauchee, having contracted venereal disease of the worst form.
He was a great debauchee and lover of bad company, an enemy of religion, morality, and law.
And this, then, was the end of the egotistical debauchee, ever going from bad to worse, and finally swept into the gutter.
A man is bound to remember the seniority of his years when this occurs, for a veteran of ninety and a worn out young debauchee will equally be subject to it if they do not shun the society of the sex.
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
How many examples are there of young debauchees who have been devoured by this cruel disease!
They were quite generous in dispensing the leaf to their fellow debauchees, and ere long we observed that our guests were behaving in a more than ordinarily lascivious manner.
The Commandant observed that they were all debauchees and drunkards, and advised me, as a friend, to renounce poetry as contrary to the service, and leading to nothing good.
He invented certain new kinds of vice, even going beyond the perverts used by the debauchees of old, and he was well acquainted with all the arrangements of Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero.
Grundyism, less Comstockery, and, at the same time, less dirty Don-Juanism, less of that curiously malignant and vengeful love-making so characteristic of the debauchee under a Christian dispensation.
They were quite generous in dispensing the leaf to their fellow debauchees, and ere long we observed that our guests were behaving in a more than ordinarily lascivious manner.
He invented certain new kinds of vice, even going beyond the perverts used by the debauchees of old, and he was well acquainted with all the arrangements of Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero.
As a matter of course, the most renowned were the most worthless, dissolute fellows, gamblers, frequenters of disorderly houses, hard drinkers, debauchees, tormentors and suborners of honest girls, liars, and wholly incapable of any good or virtuous feeling.
To-morrow, for instance, I shall sit with you on the appeal tribunal and we shall see whether the high ideals of youth are controlled by any obstacle at all: and whether justice to the provincials can be denied them by any incompetent, avaricious, bloody-minded sexagenarian debauchee.
Now, I have known cases in which good-natured debauchees have interested themselves charitably in the difficulties of forlorn families.