Sample sentences for DISSOLUTE

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unrestrained by convention or morality

She was a sensible woman and so she could not help looking upon me as a dissolute profligate incapable of real love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

Afterwards he went to America, and returned I fear to an idle dissolute life.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Or perhaps it was a tent in which a dissolute Austrian noble lay puffing a hookah or molesting a cousin.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Here's the interesting part: Rank says he inherited the disease from his father's dissolute living.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
To see the dissolute wench hang on the blear-eyed gibbet, windows are eyes.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
All these great artists burn the candle at both ends; they require a dissolute life, that suits the imagination to some extent.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
His bronze face lacked the heat, the dissolute shades common to Jett and the other men.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
He was notoriously dissolute with women.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
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
She still surrounded herself with the cynical aura of a dissolute past.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
His eyes, dark brown and quick-shifting, were dissolute.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
The stranger was meanly dressed, with every appearance about his person and countenance, of squalid poverty and of the most dissolute habits.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Alexander Vronsky, in spite of the dissolute life, and in especial the drunken habits, for which he was notorious, was quite one of the court circle.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
MEPHISTOPHELES (dancing with the old one) A dissolute dream once came to me: Therein I saw a cloven tree, Which had a——; Yet,——as 'twas, I fancied it.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
All these sounds, intimating the disorderly state of the town, crowded with military nobles and their dissolute attendants, gave Gurth some uneasiness.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
But if you say 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.
William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
She had bidden good-by to a disgraced, disinherited, dissolute boy.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
They're all named for the heroine, who succeeded in bringing a dissolute, sinning roue and atheist of a lover (St.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings

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