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dissolute - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adjective

dissolute (comparative more dissolute, superlative most dissolute)

• Unrestrained by morality.
• Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
  • ✤ Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).¹

Noun

dissolute (plural dissolutes)

• An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
  • ✤ [H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.²

Etymology

From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪsəljuːt/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 2023 April 10, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

2. 1879, The Quarterly Review, volume 148, page 263: ↩