debauchee in a sentence
Examples
- These relate, among other appalling depravities, Charles's kidnap and detainment of women and girls for use in sadistic orgies he arranged with other debauchees.
- In book publishing's continuing fascination with literary biography, there is yet again a revival of interest in the debauchee Sade and an attempt to redefine his place in literature.
- Brownlow described Haynes as a " public debauchee and hypocrite, " Haynes mocked Brownlow's lineage, and charged that he had once been flogged for stealing jewelry in Nashville.
- Hence in accordance with the natural karmic laws, consequences occur when one utters a lie, steals something, commits acts of senseless violence or leads the life of a debauchee.
- Although " The Covent-Garden Tragedy " appeared with " The Old Debauchees ", it was not a success like the other play and quickly dropped.
- As the critic Eric Bentley has pointed out, Anouilh's virgins " stand alone in a world of debauchees : they yearn for the absolute in the morass of the relative ."
- The editor of the New York Sun described Grover Cleveland as a " coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House ."
- Jeffreys'play, an English import directed by Terry Johnson, was inspired by the Earl of Rochester, a notorious debauchee once called the 17th century's " great poet of unbelief ."
- The estate is the home of a surly sculptor ( Donal McCann ), whose wife ( Sinead Cusack ) plays hostess to a collection of writers, debauchees and an old friend, Alex ( Jeremy Irons ), who is rapidly dying.
- While satirists and gossips ( such as Anthony ?Wood ) said that Sheppard spent his time as " a debauchee and atheist, a grand companion, " others suggested that he was a fundamentally honest man who was always interested in a good joke.