The widespread association of this disease with a dissolute life-style also explains a curious double standard regarding consumptive women.
Stealing, drinking or leading a dissolute life were ways to escape desperate situations, but these offences could lead to gaol terms.
In the third stage, an air of dissolute bachelordom pervades the house.
Reynolds falls back on the stark contrast between an unfeeling and dissolute aristocracy, and a sincere and hard-working lower class.
They generally live in houses which are insanitary, and very often with parents who deserve all they have got, being drunken or dissolute people.
He mentioned the question of the harbouring and allowing of dissolute boys and girls to collect in one place.
Good, genuine useful people living on the verge of starvation and imbecile and dissolute people living in luxury and ease.
I should hate people to think that the whole trade is dissolute.
