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be dissolute



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I say, I cannot prove it strictly and undeniably that a man smally beneficed, must of necessity be dissolute and debauched.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber

Some of you may be dissolute now and may look forward to becoming like one of the nice old fellows in a Wordsworth poem.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

If the court be dissolute, as in the time of Charles the Second, the nation will plunge into vice.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

They may be dissolute actresses, seeking a spurious appearance of law to end an old alliance and prepare for a new one. 

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

You would neither be dissolute, has many of you seem to me, or cold and selfish, which are worse vices still.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray


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