How To Use Dissolute In A Sentence

When dissoluteness is condemned, it is so in natural and undisguised terms, but such are never used to stimulate voluptuousness or pleasantry. A Philosophical Dictionary
Tonight my life had been saved by a dissolute fellow, a man called Callimachus, perhaps from Port Cos, farther west on the river, a derelict. Rogue Of Gor
He adopts the lifestyle of a dissolute playboy to camouflage his crime-fighting efforts.
“A dissolute rake may indeed be most charming, my young lord, but if the coffers are strained and the title stained, you shall have a most difficult time convincing a steady-minded lady to marry you.” A PROPER AFFAIR
The motif of using the sheep to punish the jealous woman shows a strong tendency of masculine superiority culture. The dissoluteness of man sugge...

But the dissolute West presents another - and who knows?
The character chose dissoluteness over self-determination in his endless pursuit of self-love.
On his succession as king, he had taken over from a bibulously dissolute, bisexual father for whom court life revolved around hunting parties, orgies, and ribaldry. The Dragon’s Trail
She knew Rakewell was a dissolute roué, but this revelation was far beyond anything she was expecting to hear. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Dissolute Persons are wont to prepare themselves for venereous Acts by Bathing.
In the book, young architect Guy Haines accidentally meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a dissolute, alcoholic playboy, when they wind up seated together on a cross-country train journey.
While there was nothing out of the ordinary about his thoughts on jaywalking or immigration, that dissolute sandpaper voice carried you along. Times, Sunday Times
In such circumstances, it was only to be expected that Christ College in the nineteenth century had a certain reputation for dissoluteness among its staff.
Of course, these countless gallantries in the most licentious persons of the day, such as Richelieu or Saxe, were neither more nor less than an outbreak of sheer dissoluteness, such as took place among English people of quality in the time of the Voltaire
And I intend to approove by mine, what argument of infallible truth, the same benignity delivereth of it selfe, by enduring patiently the faults of them, that (both in word and worke) should declare unfaigned testimony of such gracious goodnesse, and not to live so dissolutely as they doe. The Decameron
They in turn have said she had drifted into a dissolute lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
A few boats lay in the mouth of the river, a dissolute-looking brig with its yards unsquared was at anchor higher up, and a sharp eye could detect a figure or two about the beach. The Black Bar
As to the rest -- what Augustine calls my dissoluteness -- I can't pretend to take your view; a nun's view. Amabel Channice
Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design — Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2
They believe this country is the only hope of the world and they feel that this country is becoming more and more powerful on the one hand, but on the other, is rapidly growing more dissolute.
He has a hard time making the cliché metamorphosis from dissolute wanderer to committed hero come across, but that is mostly due to problems in the script's pacing.
He makes his way with difficulty through the world, in part because he also is dissolute and perennially poor.
Among them is Jeff Atmana jaded, dissolutely resolute journalistwhose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer: Book summary
His dissolute youth -'I used to like vandalism. Times, Sunday Times
Drinking, smoking, dissoluteness and much more also often come from this culture.
His casual love affairs did not endear him to the elders of the local kirk and created for him a reputation for dissoluteness amongst his neighbours. Robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
I have also heard that he a dissolute lifestyle, but that is probably a nasty rumor.
Consequently, if the Church as a whole feels the pain of shame and disgrace, that can be an expiatory suffering for a sexually dissolute and depraved age. Suffer the little children to come unto me « Anglican Samizdat
George III's eldest son was a notorious profligate and in this essay (1792), Gillray captured his dissoluteness with acid precision.
He is losing public sympathy, not out of revulsion over his dissolute private life, but rather as a result of allegations that he abused his office to secure perks for his lovers, including a visa for his mistress's nanny.
Looking unconvincingly dissolute, he is trying to recover from being "morbidly alcoholic," and his doctor encourages him to write the novel we see unfolding in flashback.
It seems to me bad and dissolute things happen late at night under the cover of darkness.
We are being returned to the 18th century, that dissolute era of libertinism and lotteries.
Youth, our dissolute time passage.
He had the feeling of an undergraduate about him -- dissolute, uncaring, loose -- a very bad combination for a spy, thought Schneider. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Not every Eisenberg role is so richly drawn: Roger Dodger, his first film, portrayed him as a more traditionally sympathetic adolescent foil to Campbell Scott's dissolute ladykiller. We’re All Jesse’s Girls
The father remained the same — poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute – looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard. Sketches by Boz
She knew Rakewell was a dissolute roué, but this revelation was far beyond anything she was expecting to hear. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
We ignore the down-at-heel and dissolute as we heartlessly window-shop the boulevards they stumble down.
Now we have Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, that tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of ex-pats living dissolutely in Paris and the bloody bullfighting in Spain. Michael Giltz: Theater: ERS Tackles Hemingway; Nelson Tackles 9-11
What were further pecuniary exonerations, but deeper plunges into vilifying dissoluteness? Camilla
That's Buldoo the _budmash_ '--' Bhuldoo be shot! 'sez we,' 'Tis a woild dissolute Pathan frum the hills. Indian Tales
They in turn have said she had drifted into a dissolute lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
He cited the biblical parable of the prodigal son, in which the older sibling is envious of his dissolute brother, whose return home sparks a big party. Greed may not be good for the economy, but envy is worse
The action begins with a group of dissolute rich folks chatting in some tropical hideaway while oppressed throngs gather ominously at the gates.
Of these losses, the most important was the Battle of Raphia in 217 BC, where the dissolute Pharaoh Ptolemy IV managed to beat the forces of Antiochus III, who called himself "the Great. Eric Lurio: The Spirit of Chanukah
A wisp of hair waves dissolutely across her forehead between her eyes. Tuesday, Sept. 22 – The Bleat.
Of course, these countless gallantries in the most licentious persons of the day, such as Richelieu or Saxe, were neither more nor less than an outbreak of sheer dissoluteness, such as took place among English people of quality in the time of the Voltaire
His dissolute youth -'I used to like vandalism. Times, Sunday Times
Agathocles, we are told, always lived a dissolute life and was known for appallingly cruel and inhumane conduct.
The story concerns a dissolute decadent who is enchanted with his beloved, Alicia's, form, but who detests what he considers to be the frivolity and shallowness of her personality.
You, for instance, he calls a philosophizing old woman, and me a dissolute buffoon and scamp. The Caesars
It was an ill-assorted gang he had joined: high-spirited youngbloods like Cornelius Cethegus, out for a fight; aging and dissolute noblemen like Marcus Laeca and Autronius Paetus, whose public careers had been frustrated by their private vices; mutinous ex-soldiers led by rabble-rousers like Gaius Manlius, who had been a centurion under Sulla. CONSPIRATA
The slave states, were marked by ‘the unequal distribution of property, the toleration of slavery, the ignorance and poverty of the lower classes,’ and a ‘dissoluteness of manners.’
Others might grow poor squandering resources by living dissolutely.
In case I die it would be a karmic accident sent here on earth for my forefathers sins to repent maundy thursday stations of the cross the holy month of lent desolate dissolute man he came he saw his death he need not invent an accident god sent hopes as large as mansions trying to fit in a tattered and torn tent silent scriptures bleeding sorrow An Accident « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
Some see this electric music as a dissolute phase and some perceive it as tired, evidence of an aging talent attempting to be contemporary.
The women and girls who prostitute themselves to these wretches are dissolute creatures.
As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in;” now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows. The first part of King Henry the Fourth
But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard.
Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
I have also heard that he leads a dissolute lifestyle, that is probably a nasty rumor.
His brother, after living the dissolute life of a rake, had fled England at the end of the war to escape his debts.
Time goes on; Tremble is lamed by an accident and becomes a dissolute alcoholic. Empire of Dreams
I think this album is tremendous in several places, in fact; a messy, dissolute record that pulls off the stunt of being musically emotionally open while lyrically open to interpretation.
Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
And as of late he had placed such reliance in the fond love of his grandmother that his father and mother even could not exercise any extreme control over him, he had become so much the more remiss, dissolute, selfish and unconcerned, not taking the least pleasure in what was proper, that she felt convinced, whenever she entertained the idea of tendering him advice, that he would not listen to her. Hung Lou Meng
`And though I'm happy to buy a bargain or two off the fellow, I wouldn't want my daughter hitching up with such a dissolute scoundrel. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
In these hot damp climates the venereal requirements and reproductive powers of the female greatly exceed those of the male; and hence the dissoluteness of morals would be phenomenal, were it not obviated by seclusion, the sabre and the revolver. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Countless examples could be cited - including earlier works by Regnault himself - that predict the dissolute male figure and white-skinned women.
`And though I'm happy to buy a bargain or two off the fellow, I wouldn't want my daughter hitching up with such a dissolute scoundrel. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Giovanni, married a dissolute woman of low birth called Livia, and disgraced the name of Medici by the unprincely follies of his life. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
Their suffering is generally caused by adults: a parent has died, or run off, or otherwise acted irresponsibly, drunkenly, selfishly, dissolutely.
It is Peer Gynt, who has lived a dissolute life.
What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led.
I dissolutely admit that veracious men with mediocre vocations make great friends but it's those carnivorous corporate men with hefty expense accounts that somehow get my hormones raging.
Given how opinionated and dissolute they are, you'd expect sports journalists to be shrewd gamblers.
Even a proposal couldn't make his relationship work and he quit dissolutely in the erudition that there was too much love and too much hate.
And however poets may employ their wit and eloquence, in celebrating present pleasure, and rejecting all distant views to fame, health, or fortune; it is obvious, that this practice is the source of all dissoluteness and disorder, repentance and misery. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
The scene in which the ruined, now dissolute Robinson finally wreaks vengeance - quite by accident - is unforgettable.
Among those not buying into the "Celebrity Rehab" school of repentant confession: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, whose iconic status for nearly half a century has been inextricably — and often glamorously — linked to his dissolute lifestyle. The Rehab Album
His dissolute youth -'I used to like vandalism. Times, Sunday Times
It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in the ort ‘dissolutely:’ the ort is, according to our meaning, ‘resolutely:’ his meaning is good. The Merry Wives of Windsor
All these ghouls had lived dissolute lives and we were now bearing witness to their sentence in this watery purgatory.
Why did I associate with such a dissolute bunch?
Bruno is a dissolute character who lives with his doting mother.
It proves that Bieito is much more than a Spanish shock-merchant: he has an awareness of the pain of love and the dissoluteness of pleasure that makes him the modern theatre's equivalent of Buñuel.
It eyes them with an extraordinary 'dissoluteness' -- if you will give that word its literal meaning. From a Cornish Window A New Edition
Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
According to the same writer, the Gnostics and the Stratiotics equalled the Phibionites in exhibitions of licentiousness, and all three sects mingled horrid pollutions with their mysteries, men and women displaying equal dissoluteness. A Philosophical Dictionary
But I truly believe that Vegas serves as a refuge for those not permitted to be dissolute in their native environments.
For Demades indeed was himself the mere wreck of his country, living and ruling so dissolutely, that Antipater took occasion to say of him, when he was now grown old, that he was like The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
How many thousands have become murderers and robbers, bigots and domestic tyrants, dissolute and abandoned adventurers, from the use of fermented liquors; who, had they slaked their thirst only with pure water, would have lived but to diffuse the happiness of their own unperverted feelings! The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
But as the jealous and dissolute temperament of the East required this charge to be in the hands of persons who had been deprived of their virility, the word eunuch came naturally to denote persons in that condition. Smith's Bible Dictionary
Zacharias was a minor painter when he wasn't living off his mistresses, and reputedly a dissolute.
Abandoned by her husband, who is tired of living in his wife's shadow, Malak is courted by Lamei, a dissolutely handsome con-man posing as a psychologist who wants to break into film.
They in turn have said she had drifted into a dissolute lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
Once this infinity attaches to even the most trivial or dissolute of ordinary passions it lends the full force and import of freedom to it, fueling an obsessive and insatiable fanaticism.
He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy. Reflections on Burke
He was careless, dissolute, and ambitious; - idle, or doing mischief.

How To Use Dissolute In A Sentence

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