Example sentences for: dissolute

How can you use “dissolute” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The guy behind the counter, a slightly dissolute ski-bum type, seemed disturbingly interested in E. And E seemed disturbingly interested in him.

  • But at the outset, Eleanor took as her model not Bloomsbury (sexual partnership among equals, and blah-blah-blah) but FDR and her dissolute male relatives (having your way with the help).

  • The new ruler grew wealthy and powerful, twice declaring war on his sovereign and almost beating the sizeable but dissolute Ottoman army.

  • How could a man so dissolute in his private life display such discipline in his public role?

  • In Rome, the dissolute popes repeatedly switched factions for temporary advantage and lost all political and moral authority in the process.


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