dissolute

Example Sentences

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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

In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, Over the brink of it,— Picture it, think of it, Dissolute Man!

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

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

Seven years after Charles the Dissolute had obtained what is now the most valuable colonial possession of Great Britain, he ceded it to the Honourable East India Company—though, of course, for a handsome consideration.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick