How to use "dissolute" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "dissolute" in popular movie and book plots

  • As she rises as a star, Raju becomes dissolute — gambling and drinking.  - Guide (film)
  • She renews in Ranchipur an acquaintance with a former lover, Tom Ransome, now a dissolute alcoholic.  - The Rains of Ranchipur
  • Despite encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Payne begins to lead a dissolute life that leads to ruin and depression.  - Home, Sweet Home (1914 film)
  • Gerard believes the news and, stricken by grief, gives himself to a dissolute life and even attempts a suicide.  - The Cloister and the Hearth
  • George Rowland is a mildly dissolute young man who is dependent on his rich uncle for both his keep and his job at the family's city firm.  - The Golden Ball and Other Stories
  • Ultimately, Simone loses the ability to compete as a boxer because of his obsession with Nadia, his alcoholism, and dissolute lifestyle.  - Rocco and His Brothers
  • Perhan lives with his devoted grandmother Khaditza, his lame sister Danira and his dissolute uncle Merdzan.  - Time of the Gypsies
  • Hindley (Hugh Williams) has become dissolute and tyrannical and hates Heathcliff.  - Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
  • Things change when Joe's dissolute half-brother Bobby shows up.  - Limbo (1999 film)
  • Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works for her drunken, dissolute father in a speakeasy during Prohibition in Erie, Pennsylvania.  - Baby Face (film)
  • George Rowland is a mildly dissolute young man who is dependent on his rich uncle for both his keep and his job at the family's city firm.  - The Listerdale Mystery
  • The gold is stolen by Dunstan ("Dunsey") Cass, a dissolute younger son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner.  - Silas Marner
  • George Brent is Tom Ransome, an artist who leads a rather dissolute if socially active life in the town of Ranchipur, India.  - The Rains Came
  • He presents Nicholas with police reports about Rasputin's dissolute behaviour, which is damaging the Tsar's reputation.  - Nicholas and Alexandra
  • To prove his worthiness (or rather unworthiness), he begins to tell the story of his dissolute life.  - Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)
  • Darnay is framed for treason, but is saved by the cleverness of the dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman).  - A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)

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