Dissolute

At different times, we might be the dissolute son thumbing his nose at the Father, or the repentant younger son seeking His forgiveness.

A series of disasters struck the nation – drought, famine, plagues, death and captivity (Amos 4: 6–11), but the greatest disaster of all was the social disintegration due to the cleavage between the poor masses and the wealthy, dissolute upper class.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 127. Lucius at Antioch, 162–65 The dissolute Syrian army was said to spend more time in Antioch's open-air taverns than with their units.

Bowring (1996), xiv Heian Imperial court life was immensely fashionable, but also dissolute.

Cardinal Ascanio Sforza As a young cleric, Alessandro lived a notably dissolute life, taking for himself a mistress and having three sons and two daughters with her.

Contemporaries of William, as well as those writing after his death, roundly denounced him for presiding over what these dissenters considered a dissolute court.

He was old enough to be in the midst of his literary studies, to understand the real meaning and worth of the dissolute and licentious lives of his companions, and to have been deeply affected himself by the love of a woman.

In 1804 he traveled again to Europe in an attempt to ease his pain and began falling into a dissolute life.

Psellus ascribes Basil's radical change from a dissolute youth to a grim autocrat to the circumstances of the rebellions of Bardas Skleros and Bardas Phokas.

Robert Greene It has been suggested that the dissolute writer Robert Greene may also have been an inspiration for the character of Falstaff.

The discredit attaching to bowling alleys, first established in London in 1455, probably encouraged subsequent repressive legislation, for many of the alleys were connected with taverns frequented by the dissolute and gamesters.

The other two, Marie Jeanne-Baptiste and Louise Philiberte, led dissolute lives.

The poem instructs an imaginary painter how to picture the state without a proper navy to defend them, led by men without intelligence or courage, a corrupt and dissolute court, and dishonest officials.

Thereafter she led a dissolute life.

This did not mean, unfortunately, that he gave up his former dissolute military life.