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Orgy

noun

(pl. orgies)

Any act of immoderate indulgence. Synonyms: binge, splurge. "An emotional binge" , "A splurge of spending"

Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity.

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, riot, saturnalia.

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... a conqueror. For he had decided not to go up to the flat, but to breakfast right here and to spend an hour in the square before going back to the glass cage at nine. His chest pouted; his eyes glistened; wine ran in his veins. He ordered ham-and-eggs and hot-cakes. An orgy! ...

— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper

... autumn of 1875 an insurrection had broken out in Bulgaria, and the Turkish Government despatched a large force to repress it. This was done, and repression was followed by a hideous orgy of massacre and outrage. A rumour of these horrors reached England, and public indignation spontaneously awoke. Disraeli, with a strange frankness of cynical brutality, sneered at the rumour as "Coffee-house babble," and made odious ...

— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... some way offended this chief. His offer was accepted, and, accompanied by five ruffianly whites and some hundreds of natives, the unfortunate people were surprised and butchered. Elated with this achievement, Larmer returned to Ponape, and, during the orgy which took place to celebrate the massacre, he shot dead one of his white companions who had displeased ...

— The Brothers-In-Law: A Tale Of The Equatorial Islands; and The Brass Gun Of The Buccaneers - 1901 • Louis Becke

... amongst themselves. I was indeed in an unenviable plight, by no means sure that I would not be slain out of hand when they became sufficiently sober to capture me. As I marked the progress of their damnable orgy I cast about for some plan to take advantage of their condition. I observed that a stupor was already beginning to overcome a few of them. Then suddenly an incident happened to drive all else ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... drove him childishly frantic. He wanted to kill Bloeckman and make him suffer for his hideous presumption. He was saying this over and over to himself with his teeth tight shut, and a perfect orgy of hate and ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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