DISSOLUTE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for DISSOLUTE, such as:

1. He was notoriously dissolute with women.
2. The dissolute life led by the ancient Romans is indeed shocking.
3. Meanwhile it is plain that the local peasant has become a mere dissolute, lazy drunkard.
4. Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSOLUTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dissolute
 a.  lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices
Classic Sentence:
1  Sir,' returned Mr. Littimer, slightly lifting up his eyebrows, but not his eyes, 'there was a young woman who fell into dissolute courses, that I endeavoured to save, sir, but could not rescue.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
2  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.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
3  All these sounds, intimating the disorderly state of the town, crowded with military nobles and their dissolute attendants, gave Gurth some uneasiness.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
5  As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
6  He was notoriously dissolute with women.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
7  Meanwhile it is plain that the local peasant has become a mere dissolute, lazy drunkard.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XV
9  Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVIII
10  Various groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displacement of peoples was in course of preparation.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
11  On his return from Italy he finds the government in Paris in a process of dissolution in which all those who are in it are inevitably wiped out and destroyed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
12  I shall only make one more examination of myself; when I have done that, I shall know pretty certainly when it will be that the horrors of dissolution will begin.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
13  She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  HE that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution of government, ought in the first place to distinguish between the dissolution of the society and the dissolution of the government.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  The dissolute life led by the ancient Romans is indeed shocking.
2  Which caused King Lear more suffering: the dissolution of his kingdom into warring factions, or of his aged, failing body?