dissolute

Example Sentences

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The dissolute, debauched Lucius might have proved a challenge for Marcus in the long run, but illness carried him off after eight years in power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

“I drove my Packard around, looking for signs of the old, decrepit, dissolute Los Angeles, and I found it in spades. I had lots of adventures.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 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

He is a world-weary, somewhat dissolute avatar of colonial power — “a representative of the state” in his own assessment, which sounds both humble and boastful — going to seed in a tropical paradise.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 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