dissolute
adjective
indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
dissoluteness
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a word derived from
dissolute.
Example Sentences
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This world, dripping with dissoluteness and a belief in the redemptive value of danger, coincided with the debut of a revolutionary new clothing consortium called Paraphernalia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
We are served a fare of dissoluteness and destruction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gay ripped open the underworld of his time to reveal its dissoluteness and dog-eat-dog love of lucre; but he had a corrupt great world equally in mind, even satirizing Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Irreligion, dissoluteness, and pessimism—supposed naturally to go together—could never prosper; they were incompatible with efficiency.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George
