Example sentences for: decadent

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

  • A succession of weak and decadent emperors saw the Roman Empire fall gradually into decline and anarchy.

  • 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.

  • Some are also upset by the eroticism of Parmigianino in his strange but undeniably graceful Madonna with the Long Neck (1534) — just look at those elongated fingers — a masterpiece of the sophisticated and subsequently decadent Mannerism that followed the High Renaissance.

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

  • She relies heavily--very heavily--on adverbs, which serve to pepper her noncommittal reviews with small emphatic bursts and to jack up her celebrations (from a 565-word review of Velvet Goldmine : "dazzlingly surreal," "brilliantly reimagines," "spectacularly reborn," "dramatically presided," "stunningly pretty," "fabulously charismatic," "hilariously decadent," "typically wicked").


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