He robbed with a furious rapacity, and granted favors with great generosity; he was intrepid in action; affable in company; a debauchee at table, but gay in debauchery; and particularly remarkable for his frank and open behavior.

I am anxious lest you should be made the dupe of a coquette, and your peace of mind fall a sacrifice to an artful debauchee.

A strong contrast to this dastardly debauchee was offered by the bolder villain.

Hence, some two or three pegs higher, and not more, are such very very fine scoundrels as the Pelhams, &c.; shallow, watery-brained, ill-taught, effeminate dandiesanimals destitute apparently of one touch of real manhood, or of real passioncold, systematic, deliberate debauchees, withalseducers, God wot!

And this, then, was the end of the egotistical debauchee, ever going from bad to worse, and finally swept into the gutter.

The dutiful son might have added, if respect and feeling had not kept him silent, that his offers of settling a large jointure upon his elder sister had been accepted, and that the following week was to make her the bride of the emaciated debauchee who now sat by her side.

Even that eminent debauchee, Nero, was only three times sick in fourteen years.

(Greek, chaunos, "vain".) CHEAT'LY (2 syl.), a lewd, impudent debauchee of Alsatia (Whitefriars).

(Greek, chaunos, "vain".) CHEAT'LY (2 syl.), a lewd, impudent debauchee of Alsatia (Whitefriars).

At the head of the council of finance, a place was found for the Duke of Noailles, active in mind and restless in character, without any fixed principles, an adroit and a shameless courtier, strict in all religious observances under Louis XIV., and a notorious debauchee under the Regency, but intelligent, insolent, ambitious, hungering and thirsting to do good if he could, but evil if need were, and in order to arrive at his ends.

Hence, some two or three pegs higher, and not more, are such very very fine scoundrels as the Pelhams, &c.; shallow, watery-brained, ill-taught, effeminate dandiesanimals destitute apparently of one touch of real manhood, or of real passioncold, systematic, deliberate debauchees, withalseducers, God wot!

This parent I here behold inhumanly stripped of the best solace of her declining years by the insnaring machinations of a profligate debauchee.

In later times, as in the days of our Merry Monarch, attractive ladies were able to found ducal families by placing their charms at the service of a royal debauchee.

Hence, some two or three pegs higher, and not more, are such very very fine scoundrels as the Pelhams, &c.; shallow, watery-brained, ill-taught, effeminate dandiesanimals destitute apparently of one touch of real manhood, or of real passioncold, systematic, deliberate debauchees, withalseducers, God wot!

What spectacle of drunkenness ever restrained the youthful debauchee?