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How to pronounce dissolute in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous
Derivation dissoluteness

Examples of dissolute

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The other two, Marie Jeanne-Baptiste and Louise Philiberte, led dissolute lives.
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Their successors today are just as dissolute, and a great deal more photographed.
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Their erudite but dissolute landlord Jim Tyrone is a man of immense inner conflict.
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James Duval and Rose McGowan play a cruising couple who pick up a dissolute character.
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These days it's a bit of a dissolute place, with graffiti spoiling the arts pavilion.
From the independent.co.uk
The Empress neglected the proper education of her son, who grew dissolute.
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Are they going to play the role of Pompey, the dissolute leader who didn't want to fight?
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Frank Kimbrough's music is a strange mixture of dissolute and rock solid.
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Over the years, I've been dissolute and self-contradictory in my advice.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • Debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
  • (dissolutely) profligately: in a dissolute way
  • (dissoluteness) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
  • Unrestrained by morality; Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures
  • Around the 14th century, actions marked by indulgence in things deemed vices began to be described as dissolute, meaning that they dissolve, or disintegrate, the actor. ...
  • Loose in ones morals or behavior