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.
decÂ·aÂ·dent. adj. 1. Being in a state of decline or decay. 2. Marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent. 3. often Decadent Of or relating to literary Decadence. n. 1. A person in a condition or process of mental or moral decay. 2. often Decadent A member of the Decadence movement.