Example sentences for: dissolute

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

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

  • 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).

  • If to my trip counselors I was a miscegenating rebel, and if to Ofra's uncle, whose censure I still remembered, I was a godforsaken secular Jew, and if to Devin's mates I was that locker-room joke, the lubricious JAP, and if in the eyes of the Muslim men observing us while they played sheshhesh in the market cafes I was a representative of dissolute America, the country of women who are beyond whoredom, then the weight of these clashing systems of control and expectation around female sexuality was just too much.

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

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


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