Decadent

(noun.) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically).

(adj.) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; 'a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility'; 'a group of effete self-professed intellectuals' .

阿伦编辑

• Closely related to the constitution and just as decadent to-day are the Sanctity of Private Property, Vested Rights, Competition the Life of Trade, Prosperity (at any cost). 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The report happens to embody what I conceive to be most of the faults of a political method now decadent. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All other nations were represented as incompetent and decadent; the Prussians were the leaders and regenerators of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Like all inventions it will disturb deeply the classicalist tendency, and this disturbance may generate a new impulse to replace the decadent one of the pioneer. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is all purely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To-day, however, it represents but a decadent type, being largely supplanted by the superior advantages of electricity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When we are asked to think of the Republic as the reaction of decadent Greece upon the conservative temperament of Plato, the function of theory is given a new illumination. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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