be dissolute

Example Sentences

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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 Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Resolute to be dissolute; and, therefore, this: Keep but thy word, great king, and I am thine.

From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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 McCabe, James Dabney

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 Marryat, Frederick

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace