dissolute
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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 and degraded!" she said again and again when we were outside.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 by Various
Dissolute, cruel, and avaricious Messalina certainly was, but mad she was not.
From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, This is the Will of the Yukon, — Lo, how she makes it plain!
From The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
Vocabulary lists containing dissolute
100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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Grade 12, List 6
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"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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