0 past simple and past participle of indulge
1 to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you:
The indulged reader can quickly scan past these tugs at the middle-class conscience should she wish to.
In her view, the state indulged in a fantasy about a gendered colonial society, rather than combating economic problems by rational means (pp. 137-8).
These carnivals are tame affairs that ultimately do not so much upset bourgeois order as provide a framework by which fantasies can be indulged and then 'put right'.
Moreover, with little free time but a longing to escape from the stresses of their daily lives, they often indulged in activities harmful to their health.
In relation to all these topics and many more this volume provides a clear, abstract account of the most sophisticated debates indulged in by early modern thinkers.
These lands were too poor and fragmented to support large state systems and the pastoral inhabitants of the area indulged in relatively localized plundering expeditions into the plains.
The moral universe in which such evil is unhindered and unpunished, in which wickedness not only prospers but is indulged with impunity, may seem radically out of joint.
Cigarette smoking, a habit indulged in universally by both males and females throughout the country, has long been associated with chronic bronchitis.
