0 (of a person) living in a way that other people strongly disapprove of: --
He led a dissolute life, drinking, and womanizing till his death.
1 showing a lack of good character and morals; immoral: --
a dissolute life
It would be a very lamentable thing if the dissolute part of the community were to live longer than those who are engaged in the higher callings of life.
He stated, for example, that it was not true that becoming a member of a club necessarily meant being dissolute.
I came to vegetarianism fairly late in my somewhat dissolute life; it has been a journey of discovery.
If these men had been incapable or dissolute and badly behaved there would have been no hesitation in stating it.
He was a corrupt and dissolute clergyman who possessed a great deal of wit.
Is it not high time for those who, loyally and legally, pay their rates and rents to have some recompense from such dissolute councils?
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was bright and intelligent, but who had a rather lazy and dissolute father.
I should hate people to think that the whole trade is dissolute.
