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Some of you may be dissolute now and may look forward to becoming like one of the nice old fellows in a Wordsworth poem.

By the momentum of one free to be dissolute he, a libertine, had a short time earlier worn away one more restriction; but as it was one of consenting adults; was it all that necessary to build dams and reroute the currents of a river that ran both ways?

They may be dissolute actresses, seeking a spurious appearance of law to end an old alliance, and to prepare for a new one.

If the court be dissolute, as in the time of Charles the Second, the nation will plunge into vice.

For inasmuch as there are dissolute men, it is needful that there should be dissolute women also, for otherwise the dissolute men would of necessity cast their eyes upon the virtuous women.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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