as in corrupt
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
literature dealing with the dissolute and degrading aspects of human experience
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Recent Examples of dissolute
Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, moved across the country following the death of his dissolute, larger-than-life father, and made a series of homes in mill towns north of Boston with his mother, who was a schoolteacher, and his younger sister.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall.
—Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause.
—Maurice Samuels / Made By History, TIME, 21 May 2024
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall.
—Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause.
—Maurice Samuels / Made By History, TIME, 21 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissolute
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Our institutions are failing us — either corrupt or underfunded, gutted and useless — and we’re absorbed with stories of characters that manage to save themselves, and on their own terms.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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That failure was on corrupt leadership.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Under her leadership, the NYBG’s research team has expanded to 81 projects across 79 countries to conserve disappearing plant species, restore degraded ecosystems, and breed crops to withstand drought, sea level rise and extreme heat under climate change.—
Eduardo Garcia,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Smoke will also lead to degraded air quality.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Today’s over-85 cohort may also be frailer and sicker than the oldest-old were 30 years ago, Gill added, because contemporary medicine can keep people alive longer.—
Paula Span,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Officials don't recommend consuming any meat from animals that are visibly sick, but healthy deer harvested from areas where EHD has been present are still safe to eat, the DNR says.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Dissolute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissolute. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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