dissolute
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++dis·so·lute /ˈdɪsəluːt/ adjective SYDFDhaving an immoral way of life, for example drinking too much alcohol or having sex with many people 〔生活〕放荡的,放纵的 SYN debauched
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dissolute• Sitting like that, slumped and half-naked, he looked almost dissolute.• Zacharias was a minor painter when he wasn't living off his mistresses, and reputedly a dissolute.• Yes, he had heard about him and his dissolute bad life; also vague tumours about the old scandal.• This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissolute borrower to mend its ways by withholding finance.• In less-than a week I was employed in the dissolute field of computers.• I can not see her as an innocent victim of a nasty and dissolute hippie.• It is Peer Gynt, who has lived a dissolute life.• Sadie returns to Seattle from a dissolute road journey.Origin dissolute (1300-1400) Latin dissolutus, past participle of dissolvere; → DISSOLVEdis·so·lute adjectiveChineseSyllable
drinking an example having life, too Corpus for way of immoral
dissolute
dis‧so‧lute /ˈdɪsəluːt/
adjectivehaving an immoral way of life, for example drinking too much alcohol or having sex with many people
SYN debauched
dis‧so‧lute /ˈdɪsəluːt/
adjectivehaving an immoral way of life, for example drinking too much alcohol or having sex with many people SYN debauched