smithers had thwarted my earlier attempt to take candy from a baby, but with him out of the picture, i was free to wallow in my own crapulence
mean-spirited, mischevious and/or immoral activity (or the mindset that leads to it)
"smithers had thwarted my earlier attempt to take candy from a baby, but with him out of the picture, i was free to wallow in my own crapulence" What is the definition of "crapulence"?