bacchanalia

n.

a drunken feast; orgy; celebration devoted to sensual enjoyment; wild activity

Syn: carousal, debauch, dissipation, excess, indulgence, revelry, surfeit

Ant: care, thriftiness

debauchery

n.

excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance; corruption, immorality

Syn: carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, excess, license; baseness, degeneracy, iniquity, vice

Ant: benevolence, giving, unselfishness; good, honor, morality, nobility, purity, virtue

depraved

adj.

corrupt, wicked, or perverted

Syn: base, debauched, degenerate, lascivious, nefarious, profligate, vitiate, wanton

Ant: good, honorable, moral, noble, upright, virtuous

dissipate

v.

to indulge in excessive devotion to pleasure; to be intemperate; dissolute

iniquity

n.

gross injustice or wickedness; a violation of right or duty; wicked act; sin

Syn: abomination, baseness, injustice, unrighteousness, depravity, corruption

Ant: decency, virtue, goodness

libertine

n./adj.

1. n. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, esp. a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.

2. adj. free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious

Syn: cyprian, lecher, paillard, profligate, satyr, sensualist; lascivious, libidinous, lustful

Ant: chaste, puritanical

libidinous

adj.

full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious

Syn: carnal, concupiscent, debauched, libertine, prurient, salacious, wanton, obscene

Ant: clean, decent, moral, chaste, proper, virginal

licentious

adj.

unrestrained by law, morality, or sexually; lascivious; disregarding customary boundaries or rules

Syn: amoral, corrupt, libertine, libidinous, reprobate, incorrigible, profligate

Ant: chaste, controlled, good, innocent, moral, pure, restrained

rake

n.

a dissolute or profligate person, esp. a man who is licentious

Syn: lout, scoundrel

Ant: gentleman

reprobate

adj.

morally depraved; unprincipled; bad; shameless

Syn: corrupt, degenerate, immoral, incorrigible, lewd, wanton, iniquitous

Ant: good, honest, just, reputable, virtuous

ribald

adj.

vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous

Syn: base, bawdy, licentious, rough, lecherous, prurient, suggestive

Ant: chaste, clean, decent, proper

salacious

adj.

lustful or lecherous

Syn: carnal, bawdy, libidinous, obscene, prurient, suggestive, wanton

Ant: chaste, clean, decent, proper

sordid

adj.

characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul

Syn: abject, avaricious, base, degenerate, ignoble, shabby, shameful, wretched

Ant: good, honorable, reputable, moral, noble

turpitude

n.

a vile, shameful, or base character; depravity; a vile or depraved act.

Syn: baseness, corruption, debauchery, degredation, vice, decadence, iniquity

Ant: decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness

reprobate

n.

a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person

Syn: outcast, pariah, prodigal, rake

reprobate

v.

to disapprove, condemn, or censure

Syn: castigate, denounce, criticize, disparage, reproach

Ant: absolve, approve, exonerate, release