From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdecadentdec‧a‧dent /ˈdekədənt/ adjective BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSBAD PERSONhaving low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than serious matters Pop music was condemned as decadent and crude. —decadently adverb
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decadent• We spent the whole summer drinking, smoking and lying around. It must sound totally decadent.• Maybe not the first tour but by the second tour, I think it began to get decadent.• State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity.• Pop music has been condemned as decadent and crude.• It was decadent and utopian, pure and corrupt.• A spoon of decadent caviar dresses up the dish.• So with football and politics as the bread and circuses of our decadent empire - whither religion?• From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments.• Casinos sound such arbitrary and decadent places; nobody would want their economy's fate to be determined in one.• Limousines slid across the asphalt, decadent thrill-seekers cringing behind their curtained windows. 