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Recent Examples of decadent
Adjective
It was known not only for its duck entrees but an expansive and decadent chocolate dessert bar, said to be the first in the city. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025 Instinct says to seduce with a decadent chocolate treat, but sadly, my Valentine for the past 20 years isn’t the biggest chocolate lover. Martin Sorge, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
A little salt balances the sweetness, and chocolate is rich, pleasantly, bitter, sweet and decadent. Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024 Each is scented with decadent Cardamom Chestnut, which features notes of spicy black cardamom, roasted chestnuts, creamy vanilla, and warm woods. Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for decadent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decadent
Adjective
  • In theory, the walls of carbon nanotubes house a sea of degenerate electrons that have a similar density to metals.
    The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There was alarm at the prospect of hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning to the U.S. with such degenerate experience under their belts, and presumably spreading these habits among hitherto innocent American wives.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already?
    Bluesky Social, Bluesky Social, 11 Mar. 2025
  • While Democrats have tried to put human faces on the ranks of the federal employees who have been abruptly fired, inviting some to sit in the gallery at the president's speech to Congress, Trump has portrayed the workforce with a broad brush as bloated, unproductive and even corrupt.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That day has come with the debut of this fine fragrance, which translates its signature warm, sweet and slightly spicy notes into a luxurious perfume.
    Jackie Fields, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Sea Island, Georgia Southern charm and golfing excellence abound at Sea Island’s two luxurious sister resorts, The Cloister and The Lodge at Sea Island on the coast of Georgia.
    Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The days of pandering to perverts and woke PFCs are over.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • While Malby was a hedonist and a womanizer, Mathu is a conventional doctor who lives in harmony with his family.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
  • After a buzzy renovation and reopening in 2023, it’s welcomed a new generation of Tinseltown hedonists.
    Vogue, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This is bad enough, but then there’s the wide gulf of sensibility that separates Rock and Martin; the latter’s effete irony just doesn’t gel with Rock’s political trenchancy.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The Portnoy in the pizza videos often has a preening, fussy, almost effete quality that complicates his butch self-image.
    Willy Staley, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Meier is among the authors of a WWF report that outlines steps towards restoring, conserving, and sustainably managing grasslands, and urges for them to be included in global UN targets aiming to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems and 30% of terrestrial and aquatic environments by 2030.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Tragically, the Chesapeake remains significantly degraded and its overall water quality has improved only marginally after 41 years.
    Gerald Winegrad, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Jean, 36, began experimenting with these sensual voiceovers in 2023.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Free from the arc of awards season, the fashion world set their eyes squarely on Paris Fashion Week’s debuts: first, Haider Ackermann’s sensual take on Tom Ford, and now, to Burton at Givenchy.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025

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