dissolute

[US]/ˈdɪsəluːt/
[UK]/ˈdɪsəluːt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking moral restraint, especially in indulging in sensual pleasures

Example Sentences

a brilliant and dissolute writer

His dissolute life is inconsistent with his Puritan upbringing.

Become arbitrary after brutal all day immersed in the dissolute satyric and thus lose the support of the people Jing wine, often give a feast hosted a dinner to accompany.

Under supergene process influencing, kaolinites invered dickites, siderite were been ferritization, part of carbonate mineral have been dissoluted producing calcite.

He led a dissolute lifestyle, partying every night.

The dissolute behavior of the young man shocked his family.

She was known for her dissolute ways and extravagant spending.

The dissolute aristocrat squandered his fortune on gambling and women.

The dissolute atmosphere of the party made her uncomfortable.

He was criticized for his dissolute habits and lack of responsibility.

The dissolute artist was known for his controversial and provocative works.

She couldn't stand his dissolute friends and their wild parties.

The dissolute behavior of the rock star was well-documented in the tabloids.

He tried to hide his dissolute past from his new colleagues.

Real-world Examples

" I wish I were dissolute, " I said, turning to her and ignoring Falstaff.

Source: Call Me by Your Name

Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them.

Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Lucia, who had caught the exchange, said: " Tanto, one scotch more or less won't make you any less dissolute than you already are."

Source: Call Me by Your Name

Life knocked at the door and tore him from his artist's dreams to a dissolute existence of alternating pleasure and boredom.

Source: Cliff (Part 1)

" The first signs of a very dissolute and wabbly senescence—you have spent the afternoon talking about tan and a lady's legs" .

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

Meanwhile he already felt in the depth of his soul all the cruelty, dastardliness and baseness not only of that act of his, but of his whole idle, dissolute, cruel and wayward life.

Source: Resurrection

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