dissolute

• He had mortally wounded the pride of Rochester in insinuating that by his (Overbury's) means he might be lowered in the king's favour; and he had endeavoured to curb the burning passions of a heartless, dissolute, and reckless man Overbury's imprudent remonstrances were reported to the countess; and from that moment she also vowed the most deadly vengeance against him. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• So dissolute was the general tone of the colonies and so depraved the habits of many of the colonists that Columbus could, with sincerity, exclaim, “I vow that numbers of men have gone to the Indies who did not deserve water from God or man Las Casas, who loved sinners as much as he loathed sin, observed this motley population with a more tolerant eye and affirmed that even amongst those who had lost their ears, he still found sufficiently honest men; it was not difficult to lose one’s ears in those days. —  Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
• Misfortune, extravagance, and the want of funds, or any manner of getting interest on money, soon eat the estate up, and Don Juan Bandini returned from Mexico accomplished, poor, and proud, and without any office or occupation, to lead the life of most young men of the better families--dissolute and extravagant when the means are at hand; ambitious at heart, and impotent in act; often pinched for bread; keeping up an appearance of style, when their poverty is known to each half-naked Indian boy in the street, and they stand in dread of every small trader and shopkeeper in the place. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• If the court be dissolute, as in the time of Charles the Second, the nation will plunge into vice. —  Diary in America, Series Two
• It did not last long, but in less than a week I managed to squander a small fortune Those were the days when Dawson might fitly have been called the dissolute. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

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