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decadent adjective breaking down, cankered, corrupt, crumbling, debauched, decaying, declining, decomposing, decrepit, degenerate, degenerating, deteriorated, deteriorating, dilapidated, effete, failing, falling, falling into ruin, feeble, immoral, in decadence, in decline, moldering, moribund, on the wane, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, rotting, shabby, sinking, spoiled, spoiling, unprogressive, wasting, wasting away, weakened, withering, worn out See also: dissolute, old, regressive How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Those unfortunate blighters missed a depiction of Nora Helmer's celebrated exit so decadently trippy it would have given Ibsen a coronary. The ultimate holiday luxury, this Christmas candle burns for 30 hours and smells decadently of orange, cinnamon, holly berry, chocolate, and other rich aromas of the holiday hearth. There is no question that Hodgkin is a vitalist and that aesthetic painting is alive and well in his work, but one has to consider the possibility that his work decadently recapitulates its own history (of which Hodgkin is quite conscious). |
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