decadent
DEK-uh-duntadjMeaning spoiled by too much luxury and pleasure, and slipping downhill
Memory hook DE-CAD: falling DOWN from luxury. The king lounges on his throne eating cake all day while the castle crumbles around him: his court has grown decadent.
The cake was so decadent that it had three kinds of chocolate and a layer of fudge.
In context In its last years the old empire grew decadent: its nobles held endless banquets while roads crumbled, soldiers went unpaid and no one guarded the borders.
Similar self-indulgent, overindulgent, corrupt, degenerate
Opposite disciplined, austere, virtuous
From French décadent, from décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia: de- (down) + cadere (to fall).