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Definition
unrestrained by convention or morality
- A fiendish libertine from his earliest years this stinking goat of Mendes gave precocious signs of infantile debauchery, recalling the cities of the plain, with a dissolute granddam.Episode 15 — Circe (36% in)
- This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.Episode 16 — Eumaeus (8% in)
There are no more uses of "dissolute" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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