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

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 City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by Thompson, George

Dissolute as he was, there was a kindness, a generosity of disposition that made his influence over man or woman most perilous to both.

From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Robinson, Mary

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