Debauchery - English meaning

noun

Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

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The journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places

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Dishonest or illegal behaviour involving a person in a position of power, for example, accepting money for doing something illegal or immoral

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He was a member of the team looking into allegations of corruption in the local government building…

noun

The state or quality of being degenerate.

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The degeneracy of later roman work

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Behaviour that shows very low moral standards

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He wrote about the moral degeneracy that accompanies the accumulation of wealth.

noun

Moral corruption; wickedness.

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A tale of depravity hard to credit

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The state of being morally bad, or an action that is morally bad

noun

Overindulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipated living.

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A descent into drunkenness and sexual dissipation

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The process of gradually disappearing

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He sees a growing dissipation of our cultural values., scientists say the dissipation of the el niñ…

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A way of living that people strongly disapprove of because it is morally bad

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She thanked him lovingly for having put a stop to the dissoluteness of her life., great dissolutene…

noun

Lack of humility or decency.

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He had the immodesty to say that his way is the only way

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The fact of having too high an opinion of yourself

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His honesty is sometimes interpreted as immodesty., he dubbed his community church, with characteri…

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Indecent behaviour.

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Seven offences of rape and indecency

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Morally offensive behaviour

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Acts of gross indecency

noun

Immoral or grossly unfair behaviour.

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A den of iniquity

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A very wrong and unfair action or situation

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They fought long and hard against the iniquities of apartheid., the writer reflects on human injust…

noun

Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.

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The thing which most disturbed him was the perversion of language and truth

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Sexual behavior that is considered unnatural and morally wrong

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[ c ] what we’re being shown here is not normal family life, it’s a perversion of that.

noun

The quality of being confidently careless and informal

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They wear tweed caps in various angles of rakishness., the three women are wary of the rakishness o…

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A lack of shame, especially about something generally considered unacceptable

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I am disgusted at the thoughtlessness and shamelessness displayed by these players., he performed h…

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Behaviour that is against the rules of a religion or morally wrong

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He becomes obsessed with his parents' apparent sinfulness., she regrets her life of sinfulness and …

verb

Commit a sin.

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I sinned and brought shame down on us

noun

An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.

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A sin in the eyes of god

abbreviation

Sine.

noun

Depraved or wicked behaviour or character.

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Acts of moral turpitude

noun

Immoral or wicked behaviour.

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An open sewer of vice and crime

preposition

As a substitute for.

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The letter was drafted by david hunt, vice bevin who was ill

noun

A metal tool with movable jaws which are used to hold an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench.

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Hold the rail in the vice

noun

The quality of being evil or morally wrong.

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The wickedness of the regime

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The fact of being morally very wrong or bad

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They would be punished for their wickedness.