Story highlights. Michael Skakel, a Kennedy relative convicted of the 1975 murder of a 15-year-old neighbor, walked out of a Connecticut courthouse Thursday on bail.
In England the Decadents were 1890s figures such as Arthur Symons (âthe blond angelâ), Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson, who were members of the Rhymersâ Club or contributors to The Yellow Book.
Definition of decadent. 1  1 literature : one of a group of late 19th century French and English writers tending toward artificial and unconventional subjects and subtilized style. 2  2 : one that is marked by decay or decline : one that is decadent (see 1decadent 1)