noun
- A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.
verb
- Grow worse.
- usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- synonyms: devolve, deteriorate, drop
adjective
- Unrestrained by convention or morality.
- usage: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
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