decadent

decadent

1. dekadentti, rappeutunut, turmeltunut

Synonyymisanakirja

decadent

avokätinen, hemmotteleva, dekadentti-, turmeltunut, huono ihminen, ikävä ihminen, dekadentti.

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management, understatement, establishment, vol-au-vent...

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Englannin sanakirja

decadent englanniksi

1. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.

2. w:Gore Vidal|Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

3. Luxuriously self-indulgent.

4. w:en:Hedonismbot Hedonismbot in the w:en:Futurama Futurama episode "w:en:The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings|The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"

Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!

5. A person affected by moral decay.

6. L. Douglas

He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

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