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单词 decadent
释义
decadent
adjective
uk
/ˈdek.ə.dənt/us
/ˈdek.ə.dənt/
A decadentpersonorgrouphaslowmoralstandards:
（人或组织）腐朽的；颓废的；堕落的
a decadentsociety腐朽的社会
the decadentcourtsurroundingtheking国王身边腐朽的王室成员
humorousChampagneandchocolatesforbreakfast- how decadent!早餐喝香槟吃巧克力——真够颓废的！
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • enormity
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • obscenity
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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(Definition ofdecadentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdecadent

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He certainly did not think that its protagonists weredecadentor degenerate - and least of all obscene.
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The persistent interweaving of ancien r'gime oligarchies and the institutions of diplomacy in the end shared the fate e of adecadentregime.
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If woman loses her self-understanding she will become shackled to a civilisation in crisis, transformed into a body, part ofdecadentfemininity.
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Whether the fact that something is overtly foreign makes it luxurious ordecadentwill be different for different people.
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Part of the pleasurable,decadentsadness of this volume is in such disillusionment.
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In their efforts to improve the sensory experiences of the poor, missionary aesthetes subscribed to a liberatory aesthetic rather than adecadentone.
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The writer, however, views these parties asdecadentand immoral, especially in a time of war, and they raise his ire.
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Fascinated by the materiality of language, thedecadenttext frequently cultivates its own shiny, polished surfaces and neglects the plot.
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Many critics have noted thatdecadentliterature values form over content.
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Similarly, neither does the "real" enter the equation in the articulation of thedecadentaesthetic.
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The ghost affords a pretext for cravings which, if illicit anddecadent, are also ironic and witty.
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He might have said "moral neutrality" or "moral bankruptcy," but he explicitly locates the decadent's sin in his perfect aesthetic design of the crime.
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These other fantasies of thedecadentimagination are also "seminal," but only in the sense of providing a basis from which to rethink psychoanalysis in terms of what it excludes.
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Soap operas and sports programs, for instance, avoided rock music until the 1980s because it was perceived as toodecadentfor those historically conservative genres.
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There is nothingdecadentabout this music.
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