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Meanings of dissolute habits in English

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Usage of dissolute habits in English
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Several of them fell into idle and dissolute habits, and became vagabonds.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
2
On account of his dissolute habits he appeared much older than his distinguished brother.
Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People / V...
3
No family will accept a young man of dissolute habits.
An Old Maid
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They know I am a poor devil with dissolute habits.
Island beneath the sea
5
He is able-bodied but lazy, without visible property or means of suppoht, an' of dissolute habits.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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Here the hero is a young dyer whose dissolute habits have brought on tuberculosis of the lungs.
A Second Book of Operas
7
Gilbert was a wealthy southern planter, of rather easy, dissolute habits, yet possessed of some redeeming points.
Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
8
I am a business man, you know," he smiled, "in spite of my dissolute habits."
The Green Rust
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He had tried hundreds of times to overcome the dissolute habits which he had contracted of late years.
The Idiot
10
Nero was five-and-twenty, but looked older, for his dissolute habits had already left their marks upon his features.
Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
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During his exile, Charles had lived much in France and had become accustomed to the dissolute habits of the French court.
Halleck's New English Literature
12
This Billy was as famous for his drunkenness and dissolute habits, as the other Billy was for his faith and joy.
From Death into Life / or, Twenty Years of my Ministry
13
The stranger was meanly dressed, with every appearance about his person and countenance, of squalid poverty and of the most dissolute habits.
The Prairie
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There is no doubt that his nephew's dissolute habits saddened the master's life, estranged him from his friends and hastened his death.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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And is not attacking the evil in one's self, and not the evil which is in others, a way of reforming dissolute habits?
Chinese Literature / Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the S...
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Because of his dissolute habits I have decided to dispose of a large portion of my estate elsewhere in case of my early death.
The Strange Case of Cavendish
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