debauchery

debauchery
I noun bacchanalia, debauchment, dissipation, dissoluteness, excess, excessiveness, grossness, immoderation, impudicity, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, lust, obscenity, orgy, profligacy, salacity, seduction, stuprum, unrestraint II index perversion, vice

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


debauchery
n.
Overindulgence in pleasures of the senses; sexual immorality.

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