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
Dane receives more screen time, but his dissolute, oft-drunk character is hard to watch knowing the actor’s offscreen battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 Apr. 2026
Similarly, Early’s dissolute failson feels less like a self-portrait than like a darkly comic deflection, a gargoyle-ish stand-in for his creator’s anxieties.
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Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
The Celine sculptures possess a dissolute drama, their icy white light toggling between the enticing and the clinical.
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Rachel Wetzler,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.
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Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 Apr. 2026
Similarly, Early’s dissolute failson feels less like a self-portrait than like a darkly comic deflection, a gargoyle-ish stand-in for his creator’s anxieties.
—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
The Celine sculptures possess a dissolute drama, their icy white light toggling between the enticing and the clinical.
—
Rachel Wetzler,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.
—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissolute
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In reality, leaders on both sides are corrupt and always on the edge of disaster.
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My career actually focuses on bonding and preventing taxpayers from being on the hook for the failures of bankrupt and corrupt companies.
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Faster delivery with degraded quality just accelerates technical debt and erodes user trust.
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Her days are spent growing coral fragments in nurseries, cleaning restoration structures, managing coral predators and transplanting coral onto degraded reefs.
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If a sick animal did end up at a slaughterhouse, the US Department of Agriculture’s thorough meat inspection system would very likely spot it, separate it from others and deem it US Suspect.
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But when McGinley was a teen-ager, Michael became sick with AIDS and moved home to New Jersey.
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“Dissolute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissolute. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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