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a person who habitually pursues excessive sensual pleasure and behaves without moral restraint
The novel portrays the heir as a reckless debauchee who wastes his fortune.
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Borrowed from French debauche, the past participle of debaucher, 'to lead away from duty or corrupt.' In English the participial form became a noun for a dissolute person.