decadence , auch: decadency

Each couple had one, and so did my mother, who was having a problem with the decadence level.

Decadence is usually a state in a society which used to be good but has become bad.

A little decadence, it was thought, went a long way.

I'm still going to be proud when Decadence takes over the world though.

They immediately see this as the decadence of the Western world.

"But I thought you wanted to participate in the life of decadence."

There is no escape from the period's decadence, of course.

"But by me eyes, these folk be making decadence into society."

The Republic itself is in a state of decadence at that time, both political and social.

Unfortunately for the town, there followed a period of economic decadence.

But if this is decadence, it could hardly be more beautiful.

There should be a decadence and a romance to a rose.

The image of '60s decadence was to end in further disaster.

And, of course, the disregard for law that made such decadence possible.

Such have been, and will be; in ages of decadence.

Yes of course there is some hypocrisy and decadence in the West.

From about 1559 began a period of decadence in Italian literature.

Anxiety about our own decadence is also a very old feature of American life.

From the first, there is a sense that they inhabit a world of decadence.

Out of such tensions, decadence may lead to a new dawn.

There was an air of decadence in the opulent room.

I've studied the Empire and its decadence long enough to know that.

Had a life filled with decadence stricken a few years off his looks?

Wherever "decadence" had taken hold, there he could be found.

Prior to tonight I had never been able to afford this sort of decadence.