Debauchery [Noun]
Sentence: Tucker Max, a 30-year-old writer with a law degree from Duke and an honorary master’s in debauchery, has the raging id of a male toddler, the lust for conquest of Hugh Hefner, and the thirst for liquor of all the country’s fraternity brothers combined. (Source: www.nytimes.com)
Meaning: Extreme indulgence in sex, alcohol or drugs
How To Remember?
Without any watch, we would have “debauch“.
Synonyms?
Corruption; Degeneracy; Depravity; Impropriety; Perversion; Turpitude.
Antonym?
Morality.
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[P.S.: The image is only for illustration. Not only “parties” reflect a life of debauchery!]
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