# debauchery

Pronunciation: say "di-BAW-chuh-ree" US /dɪˈbɔ.t͡ʃə.ɹi/, UK /dɪˈbɔː.t͡ʃə.ɹi/

## Noun

1. Excessive, uninhibited indulgence in sensual pleasures such as sex, alcohol, or drugs, regarded as scandalous and immoral.
   - Simple: Wild behavior with too much drinking, drugs, or sex, which people think is wrong.
   - _Tabloids filled their pages with tales of the rock star's debauchery._
   - _The memoir recounts the debaucheries of his twenties in vivid, regretful detail._

## Noun

2. The act of leading someone astray from their duty. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Tempting someone to stop doing what they should do.

## Origin

Formed from debauch + the suffix -ery, first recorded around 1642.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/debauchery (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).