• Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.

  Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7

  Ernest Hemingway
  American writer 1899-1961
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1. understand
2. difficult
3. anything
4. critics
5. abuse

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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand. by : Ernest Hemingway

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