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dissolute

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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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
Examples from the Corpus
dissoluteSitting 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; → DISSOLVE
dis·so·lute adjectiveChineseSyllable
drinking an example having life, too Corpus for way of immoral


dissolute
dissolute /ˈdɪsəluːt/ adjective
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Latin
 Origin: dissolutus, past participle of dissolvere; dissolve
having an immoral way of life, for example drinking too much alcohol or having sex with many people
   SYN  debauched


dis·sol·uteBrE /ˈdɪsəluːt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdɪsəluːt/ 🔊 adjective (formal, disapproving) enjoying immoral activities and not caring about behaving in a morally acceptable way 放纵的;放荡的;道德沦丧的