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comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent
Characterized by moral or cultural decline. quotations examples
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.
1992, Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Luxuriously self-indulgent. quotations examples
Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
2003, Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
plural decadents
A person affected by moral decay. quotations examples
He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
L. Douglas