dissolute
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Dissolute men pine for wives who have ditched them, and dissolute women carp at no-good boyfriends.
From New York Times • May 30, 2017
Dissolute comrades at Memphis won upon his good nature; but though he lent them money, he remained abstemious, working hard, and spending his leisure upon books and experiments.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John
Dissolute, as all men of that epoch had become, he differed from all of them in his epicureanism.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
Dissolute, damned, and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, This is the Will of the Yukon,—Lo! how she makes it plain!
From Songs of a Sourdough by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, This is the Will of the Yukon, — Lo, how she makes it plain!
From The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Vocabulary lists containing dissolute
100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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Grade 12, List 6
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"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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