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De Bascher was the opposite, a dandy who enjoyed dissolute idleness with an elegant insouciance.

This is a grim continuum on which to exist, skating between the poles of high-achieving hustler and dissolute layabout.

And indeed it is: It’s an old episode of a Maury Povich-style daytime talk show, where younger, much more dissolute incarnations of the characters battle over the results of a paternity test.

The maximalist indictment, which includes all manner of gratuitous swipes at Biden’s dissolute conduct in the throes of drug addiction, comes after Republicans in Congress savagely attacked Weiss over the prospective plea deal.

Both are highly reminiscent of how bin Laden talked about Americans as a dissolute people who "have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you."

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

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