Sanakirja.org

Esimerkit

• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
• Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
• An event of great importance about this time, and a new thing in the world's history, for which we must thank an otherwise decadent civilization, was the establishment of hospitals at Constantinople, Jerusalem and elsewhere, by the mother of Constantine, Helena, whom the Catholic Church has canonized.