Some were for the swamp, some for a dissolute motel scene.
Cherie quickly segues from sassy-sweet to dissolute and foul-mouthed.
This was perfectly in keeping with his dissolute, bourgeois-baiting public persona.
Today, he is a born-again family man who testifies for church groups on his formerly dissolute days.
He was a mature man of middle years, not a dissolute youth, but maturity only enhanced his rugged good looks.
Jaeger's head is aslant and his eyes jut forward in a pose both arrogant and dissolute.
They show lankily seductive, somewhat dissolute-looking urban adolescents.
As a teenaged boarding school student, he had earned a reputation as a dissolute, violent bully.
These excesses made the commission an easy political target, giving rise to myths of its wanton, almost dissolute ways.
The city supplies water to thousands t criminal and dissolute establishments.
British Dictionary definitions for dissolute
dissolute
/ˈdɪsəˌluːt/
adjective
1.
given to dissipation; debauched
Derived Forms
dissolutely, adverb dissoluteness, noun
Word Origin
C14: from Latin dissolūtus loose, from dissolvere to dissolve
Word Origin and History for dissolute
adj.
late 14c., "loose, negligent, morally or religiously lax," from Latin dissolutus "loose, disconnected," past participle of dissolvere "loosen up" (see dissolve). A figurative use of the classical Latin word. Related: Dissolutely; dissoluteness.