Meaning
退廃的 (たいはいてき, taihaiteki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “decadent; degenerating”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
彼は退廃的な音楽を聞くのが好きだ
He likes to listen to immoral music.
彼女は退廃的な生活で知られる悪名高いフランス王妃であった。
She was the infamous queen of France known for her decadent lifestyle.
私はいつか退廃的なその町の空気にどっぷりとつかってしまっていた.
I found myself deeply immersed in the decadent atmosphere of the town.
独自性の際立つ退廃的で妖艶な美人画で知られ、春画と好色本にも作品が多い。
He was renowned for decadent and voluptuous Bijinga (a type of Ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women) with strong originality and produced many works of Shunga (erotic arts) and Koshokubon (books on love).
しかし保守的な武士からは絵画的で華美な刃文で退廃的だと忌避されるものもあった。
However, conservative samurai avoided some of them because they thought those swords looked decadent with the picturesque and ornate Hamon (blade pattern).
どんなに経済的繁栄を誇り得ても,道義的精神が退廃してしまった社会は砂上の桜閣に等しい.
However justifiably proud it may be of its economic achievements, a society can collapse like a house of cards if its moral ethos has degenerated.
人情本（にんじょうぼん）とは、江戸時代の戯作文芸の一種で、退廃的な恋愛や風俗を中心に描いたもの。
The ninjobon refers to a genre of gesaku literature (literary work of a playful, mocking, joking, silly or frivolous nature) written during the Edo period that mainly dealt with decadent love affairs and contemporary life of Edo (now Tokyo).
一方、欧化政策を批判する国粋主義者は「嬌奢を競い淫逸にいたる退廃的行事」として非難の声を挙げていた。
On the other hand, nationalists attacking the Europeanization policy criticized these events as being 'decadent functions leading to competition for lust and luxury and to indulgence in pleasure.'
英泉の描いた美人画は、江戸時代の後期、文化・文政期の退廃的な美意識を象徴的に表していると考えられている。
Bijinga painted by Eisen is considered to have symbolically shown a decadent sense of beauty in the Bunka-Bunsei eras in the late Edo period.
文化_(元号)・文政期以降になると渓斎英泉が描くような嗜虐趣味や屈折した情念を表すような退廃的な美人画が広まる。
After the Bunka-Bunsei period, bijinga of a decadent style such as those drawn by Eisen KEISAI, which are of sadistic taste and represented perverse pathos, became popular.