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How to use decadent in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective, noun

Decadent means characterized by moral or cultural decline. Example: “The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.”

Examples of decadent by meaning

adjectiveCharacterized by moral or cultural decline.

  • As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too.1992, Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

More sentences with decadent

  • The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.From the entry withering
  • These scuffins—part scone, part muffin—are so beyond delicious, rich, and decadent they could easily be dessert.2017, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie’s Home Cooking, Oxmoor House. From the entry scuffin
  • Oh I say, drinking champagne at eight thirty in the morning – how decadent.2013, Lynda Bellingham, Tell Me Tomorrow, →ISBN, page 463. From the entry mop up
  • You’re comparing piano lessons to the apocryphal vomitoriums into which decadent Romans supposedly regurgitated their dinner?2009 February 1, “Dr. Feel It”, in New York Times. From the entry vomitoriums
  • He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.1902, Robert Langton Douglas, A History of Siena. From the entry archaism
  • Here she entertained a learned and decadent group of dissenters who gathered to discuss politics, flirt and witticize.2007, Andrea Stuart, The Rose of Martinique. From the entry witticise
  • The feminine adornments are partly primitive, partly decadent and, considering the tools with which they were executed, represent tremendous labor.1932 June 12, “Dates Early Man Back 8,000 Years: Dr. Requena Holds Discoveries Indicate Venezuela Was Civilization’s Cradle. […]”, in The…. From the entry little finger nail
  • A Mont Blanc is a celebration of decadent chestnut cream, a particularly beloved and nostalgic French flavor, and is eaten primarily around Christmas.2024 February 13, Kimberly Zerkel, The French Bakery Cookbook: Over 85 Authentic Recipes That Bring the Boulangerie Into Your Home, →ISBN…. From the entry mont blanc
  • The glass case was filled with an assortment of treats, from flaky croissants to decadent chocolate cakes, macarons, baklava, teacakes and petit fours.2023 June 1, Barbara Howard, The Taste of Rain, Barbara Howard Media, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry teacake
  • As countersubversives saw it, queer artists worked hand in hand (literally, it seemed) with political subversives while their decadent art undermined America's cultural offensive.2007, Michael S. Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy. From the entry countersubversive
  • The Politician largely benefits from the heightened elements that are downright Murphian in tone and aesthetic: There’s no shortage of gloss, entitlement, absurdly decadent scenery, and intrigue, intrigue, intrigue.2019 September 23, Shannon Miller, “Ryan Murphy's The Politician is decadent, entertaining, but kind of a mess”, in The A.V. Club. From the entry Murphian
  • On this episode of “The Great Holiday Baking Show,” our participants must make one dozen molten-lava cakes, along with an assortment of decadent truffles and a layered mousse cake.2016 December 18, “On TV”, in Sunday Patriot-News, volume 68, number 33, Harrisburg, Pa., →OCLC, page D2, column 5. From the entry molten-lava cake
  • This supremely decadent rite, apparently intended as a protoecumenical bonding ceremony, only succeeded in creating a scandal for its esotericism, anti-Semitic overtones, and its utter pointlessness.2006, Robert Bird, The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov, page 12. From the entry protoecumenical
  • Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat.2004, Alice Bach, Religion, Politics, Media in the Broadband Era, page 106. From the entry mink coat
  • Cry-Baby and Alison luxuriate in their pain and tears, and the Roman touch with the lacrimatories is supposed to add to the sense of decadent emotion.1999, Tom Lutz, “Fictional Tears”, in Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN…. From the entry lacrimatory
  • Totally decadent!’) had a gritty texture and cornfloury taste, the chilled apple crêpe turned out to be an icy triangular wedge of apple lined with a strip of pancake.1989, Nigella Lawson, review, in The Spectator, volume 262, numbers 8373–8385, London, →ISSN, page 35, column 3. From the entry cornfloury

Meaning of decadent

  1. adjective Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
  2. adjective Luxuriously self-indulgent.
  3. noun A person affected by moral decay.

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Questions about decadent in a sentence

How do you use decadent in a sentence?
Decadent is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.”
What is a short sentence with decadent?
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too.”
What does decadent mean?
Decadent means characterized by moral or cultural decline.

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