Dissolute
['dɪsəluːt] or ['dɪsəlut]
Definition
(a.) With nerves unstrung; weak.
(a.) Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Loose, licentious, lax, debauched, wanton, lewd, corrupt, profligate, rakish, depraved, reprobate, abandoned, graceless, shameless, wild.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Abandoned, profligate, loose, licentious, wanton, vicious
ANT:Upright, conscientious, strict, self-controlled, correct
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Examples
- At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He was handsome, dissolute, soft, treacherous, courteous, cruel----' Don't cry, Cary; we'll say no more about it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was a morose, savage-hearted, bad man; idle and dissolute in his habits; cruel and ferocious in his disposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Afterwards he went to America, and returned I fear to an idle dissolute life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He accuses him of prodigality because of his great public buildings, and of being vain and dissolute (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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