dissolute

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.

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.