1. dissolute - Noun
2. dissolute - Adjective
3. dissolute - Adjective Satellite
With nerves unstrung; weak.
Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. Giambattista Vico
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. Giambattista Vico
Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life. Thomas Mann
London! hast thou accused me Of breach of laws? the root of strife! Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, thy dissolute life. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Disgusting as he usually was, on rare occasions he showed flashes of stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard. Hunter S. Thompson
I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life. You don't need to control your drug intake to lead a free life. Whether you take no drugs at all or everything you can get your hands on, a free life is separated from that. Pete Doherty