Without regular watering and pruning, the once flourishing rose garden had reached a decadent state.    From LearnThat.org. 

A decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

She offers food, such as what she calls a decadent sweet roll, that's sweetened mostly with agave instead of sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed] Reference

Those sentiments were fully aired during the wide-open era we call the decadent sixties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seriously Seeking Solutions (Male sexism: cause and cure)] Reference

And this was in decadent liberal California (though, admittedly, the most conservative part ...).    From Wordnik.com.  [the nutshell] Reference

Ignorance may be bliss when in decadent times, but will not give you the tools necessary to thrive when they go bleak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art] Reference

The United States, which Chavez describes as a decadent empire, firmly backs Israel, its principal ally in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mathaba Highlights Briefing] Reference

The United States, which Chavez describes as a decadent empire, firmly backs Israel -- its principal ally in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News - The Post Chronicle] Reference

"Then the West must be getting what the Archdeacon -- he's Flora's husband, you know -- calls decadent," the girl sighed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vane of the Timberlands] Reference

But that was another kind of decadent dessert altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]

Well, they won't say "decadent," because they support that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

Even during his "decadent" days, the religious impulse was there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religious Sensibility of Beardsley] Reference

Todd called me "decadent" today-this, after he discussed protein windows!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microserfs]

Wasn't Carfagna worried Gadhafi would lecture her about her "decadent" past?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Eltahawy: Gadhafi, the Feminist?] Reference

I tried out this recipe last weekend as a healthier "decadent" weekend breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

"Yes, I will reform my ways," he said, though he didn't know what "decadent" meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stone Monkey]

It is rather sad that most comment about Beardsley is about the "decadent" nature of his art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religious Sensibility of Beardsley] Reference

RICH LOWRY, EDITOR, "NATIONAL REVIEW": Well, I think the press -- they're kind of decadent puritans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Clinton's Proposed Disbarment and Giuliani's Extramarital Affair Leave Journalists Dealing with Aftershocks of Impeachment - May 27, 2000] Reference

The mainstream press is "losing its resonance," as he says, though it's hardly as "decadent" as he insists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, What's The Big Idea?] Reference

Plus they get to enjoy our "decadent" Western benefits whilst they shout, threaten to kill us and wave placards.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Was that something you did specifically for Jeff VanderMeer -- it fits the "decadent" theme of Album Zutique so well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference

Reading books for credit is kind of decadent to me, and I had wonderful, wonderful teachers that truly made everything from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Julia Virginia Jones, October 6, 1997. Interview J-0072. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I don't want their filthy, medieval cultural imposed on me any more than they want our 'decadent' culture in their home land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Navy 15 Press Conference] Reference

He said he thought impeachment proceedings would amount to a "decadent" sidetrack, while our soldiers were still being killed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sean Penn: On Receiving the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award] Reference

His left leanings were known (he was even called "Red Pabst"), and they hated his "decadent" Weimar era films like Diary of a Lost Girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Gladysz: G.W. Pabst: A Film Director for All Seasons] Reference

The school was closed down by the Nazis in 1933 because it was "decadent" art.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

In the study, students who contemplated a rich, calorie-laden food a "decadent".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Encourage the introduction of "decadent" forms of culture and art into Islamic culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

Tourists would also tell the Syrians another story about the "decadent" and "unfair" West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

In past lectures, one cleric denounced the "decadent" influence of Western movies and television.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

'The Chateau has that kind of decadent side that I've always felt from his photographs,' she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They encourage couples to come learn together; apparently the recipes are "decadent" enough for Valentine's Day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious Eats: New York] Reference

Every new style is 'decadent' in the sense that it pays the price of progress by a falling-off from a previous achievement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

Klimt was a typical "decadent" artist despised by the Nazis but they were not above hoarding their masterpieces in cellars as booty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference

"political verse," which is really not verse at all, but a kind of decadent doggerel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference