decadent

Adjective modifier

extreme: His taste for extreme decadents, like St Augustine, the later Tolstoy, and Kierkegaard.

Modifies a noun

• dessert: Food & Drink Treat yourself to a decadent dessert from top chef Richard Hughes.
• lifestyle: To his surprise the wish comes true and he throws himself into a decadent lifestyle whilst the picture takes the toll of his excesses.
• chocolate: On 25th March you can learn all about making brioches and breads and on 22nd April the topic will be ' decadent chocolate ' .
• comfort: Dexter Chaise Longue | Harlequin Linen Time 6872 | Dark leg stain A cool contemporary design that combines chic styling with decadent comfort.
• west: The print came from Stalin's private collection of movies from the decadent West.
• atmosphere: The decadent atmosphere of high society at the start of the century is wonderfully drawn.

Modifying Another Word

• gorgeously: Get your laughing gear around these gorgeously decadent lollies and you'll never go back to boring old fruit flavors.
• deliciously: Don't you think there is nothing better than stepping out, swinging a deliciously decadent little bag through the air?
• utterly: Ultra chic and utterly decadent myhotel chelsea is an urban retreat where the feel of a bohemian country house meets contemporary glamor.
• truly: The walled sculpture garden seats over 100, with a sunken area and boat deck for truly decadent afternoons.
• so: Surely we in the West have not become so decadent that we could not live without bananas?
• very: We go to Chocolate Soup in Hunter Close, very decadent hot chocolate cafe.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Surely we in the West have not become so decadent that we could not live without bananas?
• feel: I'd never felt decadent enough to burn film that fast, but with digital there's zero marginal cost.
• seem: It seems decadent to spend hundreds of pounds on a crate of plonk you don't even intend to drink.
• consider: In the Protestant parts of petty-bourgeois Germany, refinement has long been considered decadent.
• get: Miter says " Does this mean I have to get less decadent now?
• grow: And that is very hard to do today because the Western world has grown so decadent.