dissolute

Example Sentences

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Minutes later, these new friends cross the threshold into George and Martha’s dissolute tempest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

But the show gets some mileage out of it, including a guest spot by James Van Der Beek, Dawson himself, as a dissolute older member.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

But the series makes a credible-enough-for-comedy case that, if the dissolute energies of the post-’60s were channeled slightly differently, it might have.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Banks’ wintry, autobiographical sixth novel turns on the lifelong conflict between a dissolute New Hampshire police officer and his son.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2023

The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt