dissipated

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Dissipated Broker Harley Longstreet, to celebrate his engagement to Cherry Browne, gives a party at a New York Hotel.

From Time Magazine Archive

And indeed there is a great Disparity betwixt the Operations of the several Agents whereby the Parts of a Body come to be Dissipated.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert

Dissipated his life for some years certainly had been—deeply disreputable many asserted it to be.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell

Dissipated or turned aside, partly through the fatal mistake of Marcus Aurelius himself, for a brief space of time we may discern that influence clearly predominant there.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Pater, Walter

Dissipated into thin air, dissolved like an empty pageant, not leaving a trace behind.

From The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or The Africanization of the South by Holcombe, William Henry