Thesaurus / dissoluteness
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
We have seen in the foregoing chapter how the senior members began to withdraw from the dissoluteness of the Show.
THE INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GILDSFRANCIS AIDEN HIBBERT
Your extravagant follies—your grandfather would have said, your dissoluteness—soon changed our respective situations.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAU
What were further pecuniary exonerations, but deeper plunges into vilifying dissoluteness?
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEY
His genius and austere morals, contrasted with the dissoluteness of the Romish Clergy, gave him unbounded influence in the state.
LETTERS FROM SWITZERLANDSAMUEL IRENUS PRIME
The most frightful dissoluteness of manners was encouraged by the example of the gods themselves.
CRITICAL MISCELLANIES (VOL. 2 OF 3)JOHN MORLEY
I have already mentioned the dissoluteness which almost unavoidably resulted from the prevailing tone of gallantry.
Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissoluteness of the tongue.
THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, VOL. 1 (2 VOLS)THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Such pleasures are signs of dissipation, dissoluteness, in the literal sense.
HUMAN NATURE AND CONDUCTJOHN DEWEY
He lived with boundless dissoluteness, and procured by extortion the means of indulgence.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The true purpose of the picture—to deter people from a life of dissoluteness—escaped Walter entirely.
WALTER PIETERSEMULTATULI
WORDS RELATED TO DISSOLUTENESS
- boorishness
- brutishness
- carnality
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruptness
- debauchery
- depravity
- dirtiness
- dissoluteness
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- fleshliness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- libidinousness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- raunchiness
- ribaldry
- ruttishness
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- unchastity
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- libertinism
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- libertinism
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
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