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Meanings of dissolute in English

Unrestrained by convention or morality.

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      1
      He was brave and crafty, keen in statesmanship, and dissolute in pleasure.
      Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1
      2
      Anjou is, from all accounts, reckless and dissolute; and Alencon is sickly.
      Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
      3
      Lucretia had passed her life in a refined, but rather dissolute society.
      Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
      4
      A brilliant but dissolute duchess taunted him when the news became known.
      Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2
      5
      Several of them fell into idle and dissolute habits, and became vagabonds.
      The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
      6
      He was eighteen years old, and was an idle and dissolute fellow.
      Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. A Story ...
      7
      She was not dissolute but merely turbulent, independent and impatient of restraint.
      His Excellency the Minister
      8
      He was born of good family, but was always dissolute and criminal.
      The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers
      9
      It's all very well your abusing me for being dissolute and disobedient.
      Tales of Old Japan
      10
      W. C., a native of London, a good-for-nothing lad, idle and dissolute.
      In Darkest England, and the Way Out
      11
      He was married, but, like his wife, led a very dissolute life.
      The Awakening / (The Resurrection)
      12
      Curio was a young man of high birth, dissolute, extravagant, and clever.
      Caesar: A Sketch
      13
      You know that blurt, blurt, thump, thump, dissolute sort of caravan tune.
      The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2
      14
      Charles Henry Buschman, do you wish me to be a dissolute drunkard?
      Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
      15
      Oh, and your courage in escaping from that dissolute rascal-thatcaptured her.
      Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
      16
      This dissolute manner of living left him happy but short of ready money.
      A conspiracy of paper: a novel
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