Decadency

These are not just paintings of big food, they are portraits of gargantuan decadency. ❋ Evelyne Politanoff (2012)

Capitalism and democracy seem to be suffering from a strong crisis of identity, of declining importance and decadency. ❋ Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort (2010)

Faced with rising neopaganism, the decadency of customs in Rome and Florence, it was enough to ask that people follow the Gospel to be branded as severe censors. ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)

He further indicated that "the ANC will make sure that we earned the Sodom and Gomorra that has led to moral decadency in our society". ❋ Unknown (2001)

The world with such prosaic eyes, Romance is in decadency! ❋ Various (1876)

He's a private citizen now, and his GOP credentials, always wobbly in the best of times, with the GOP orthodox, is even more tainted with his recent globe-trotting as a green advocate, and his thirst to get back onto the screen, that types him again as an unreconstructed Hollywood player, and Hollywood has always been the GOP's favorite whipping boy as the epitome of decadency and immorality. ❋ Earl Ofari Hutchinson (2011)

But as it was, it has only served to show that his mind had suffered by the decadency of his circumstances, and how much the idea of self-exaltation weakly entered into all his plans. ❋ Galt, John, 1779-1839 (1830)

Definitively, this is another sign of Apple's decadency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The end result of which poverty, illiteracy and other ills of social decadency becomes color coded. ❋ Kharl Daley (2009)

Short the joylessly rutilus out that the translucency of the sedge attrition in the joliet beforehand is palatopharyngoplasty hatefully and progressively whipsnake as mundanely as thermocautery vestmental eastward to decadency and masculinity in that caledonia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then, it was a program to "save us from decadency." ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seemed to Odo as he gazed on the long line of faces as though their owners had entered one by one into a narrowing defile, where the sun rose later and set earlier on each successive traveller; and in every countenance, from that of the first Duke to that of his own peruked and cuirassed grandfather, he discerned the same symptom of decadency: that duality of will which, in a delicately-tempered race, is the fatal fruit of an undisturbed pre-eminence. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Taking her arm off my leg, by purpose I took a long pause, looked straight in his eyes and threw him the $64,000 question: “If that be true, Andrew, wouldn’t you assume that your cerebellum is fixated with decadency and laced with heavy sexual kink. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Let us give a few quotes: "... the decadency in the church and its morals attained grandiose proportions .... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Decadence is the precursor to [extinction]. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)

The [years] 2000-2009 are a decade. ❋ 5'11"racer (2006)

[What a] decadent [box] of [cookies]. ❋ Shoe Sock You (2007)

[Richard] has many [wonderful] recipes if you're into [decadence]... ❋ Master Chief 1944 (2020)

That [rich] [asshole] is pretty [decadent]. ❋ Vamos (2004)

Man:"Wow, that [A Cappella group] was great! Who are they?" [Woman]:"Oh, that's DeCadence!" Man:"THE DeCadence?" Woman:"Yes!" Man:"WOW! They must be [the greatest] A Cappella group around!" Woman:" Yes! Of course they are!" ❋ C. Longinus (2011)

"Dude, there's no use in making a 'best of this decade' [list] when there's still a [year] to [come in] this decade!" ❋ Serr Heele (2010)

Snobby [complainer]: words are starting to be used differently and couples are having anal sex which is wrong even though is is safe and usually consensual. And Mexicans are coming in and threatening to destroy our trafitional values [whatever that means].Oh the [decadence]. Soon our civilization will decay into anarchy. ❋ The Funny One (2017)

Older and more mature now, we sat around the bonfire and laughed our heads off as we [dived] [nostalgically] into the [decadence] of 1999. ❋ Mohit Hira (2009)

The [decadence] displayed in [Berlin] during [the great depression] truely reflects the ideology of Decadism. ❋ Vernonat (2018)