OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 23902

decadent

/ˈdɛkədənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
decadente
Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so…
inmoderado • vicioso
Luxuriously self-indulgent.
2003, Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!