Example sentences for: decadent

How can you use “decadent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the conservatives' populist version, the common-sense morals of Middle Americans are under attack by libertine elites and a decadent media.

  • A Gallant character who cultivates decadent aristocratic airs or tries too hard to hold on to Puritan freshness is at best a self-punishing neurotic, at worst a fool.

  • The urban backdrop: Tak Fujimoto's sublimely subtle, atmospheric cinematography made Philadelphia look ancient, decadent, well-worn; rarely does an American film setting feel so saturated with the past and teeming with the footprints left by earlier generations.

  • At home, poor Parvez is reviled for the decadent culture that he embodies; at work, he's treated as a pet, a "little man," by the German businessman (Stellan Skarsgard) whom he supplies with prostitutes.

  • The fabulously wealthy are failing us as a social type; indeed, they are not fabulous--not excessively decadent, not imaginatively Sybaritic.


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