The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debauchery \De*bauch"er*y\, n.; pl. Debaucheries.
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Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army.
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Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance.
--Sprat.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of debauchery English)
Usage examples of "debaucheries".
Nearly always I moved silently among the merrymakers observing as they sank into gluttony, drunkenness and debaucheries of the most unspeakable depravity.
Despite my constant peccadilloes, my incessant debaucheries, I was an excellent student.
To afford ourselves a variety of experiences we sometimes sponsored disgusting debaucheries not unlike the ones over which I presided in Paris.
Glancing down at his ink-stained hands, Richard smiled, remembering how dirty he'd felt from his past debaucheries when he would think nothing of drinking himself into a stupor and falling into a strumpet's bed.
Not as a rich man's toy, as with the Ridenow lads spending a season now and then on some faraway pleasure world and bringing back new toys and new debaucheries, but free trade, with Darkovan ships coming and going at our will, not the Empire's!
His reckless wildness of life and his town debaucheries had at last touched his bloom, perhaps.