澆ぎょう季き

noun

frivolous age; decadent period

A literary or historical term referring to a degenerate or frivolous era, often in contrast to a virtuous past. Rare in modern Japanese; encountered mainly in classical texts or historical commentary.

• 歴れき史し書しょには、その時じ代だいを澆ぎょう季きと評ひょうする記き述じゅつがある。

  In historical records, there are descriptions that characterize that era as a decadent period.