dissolute
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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
For the Four Seasons, “The White Lotus” has been an undeniably powerful marketing tool — despite the death and dissolute behavior that goes on at the resorts in the series.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025
There are also historical templates for the younger royal being cast in a negative light, accused of dissolute and disreputable or as a rival threatening to undermine the authority of the elder.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 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
Vocabulary lists containing dissolute
100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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