dissoluteness

In Roman times, the town was notorious for its dissoluteness.

Madame, please have them removed, such dissoluteness embarrasses me.

According to acquaintances, he was at one time rather withered by his own dissoluteness, but he appears robust today.

The first opinion - wholly negative - claims him to be an inspirer of vicious "dissoluteness".

There's where Joe got his dissoluteness.

Compunction openeth the way for many good things, which dissoluteness is wont quickly to lose.

He wrote that "It looks drunken, brutal, and narrow-minded, and has an expression of dissoluteness the most revolting."

Chartier de Lotbinière's career as a priest was marked by "drunkenness and dissoluteness".

Pitt's ally Henry Dundas was attacked for his dissoluteness.

Schumann is not interested in process; he does not dramatize Gretchen's loss of innocence or Faust's descent into dissoluteness.

Thomas Shadwell and Dryden, for example, discussed the necessity of poetic justice in order to punish dissoluteness in their plays.

Livingston was known as "Doctor Flint" because in his inaugural speech he urged the state's residents to set their faces "like flint" against dissoluteness and political corruptness.

His speech is said to have contained invective; he shared the puritan objection to instrumental music in church services, and made a point of the dissoluteness of cathedral singing-men.

He marches his followers around London and the countryside, preaching loudly to the public on the dissoluteness of modern society until a heckler hits him in the eye with a potato.

The excerpt, titled "Gatsby in New Delhi," examines both the immense growth and progress of India as well as the cultural dissoluteness that often accompanies such rapid change.

More than that, residents describe Mr. Saraswati as a man about whom hangs an air of moral dissoluteness and whose accessibility depends on the finances of those who seek him.

Church of Santa Giuliana, heir of a female monastery founded in 1253, which in its later years gained a reputation for dissoluteness, until the French turned it into a granary.

In the ordinary state of things, it produces in a country like ours the worst effects, even on the cause of that liberty which it abuses with the dissoluteness of an extravagant speculation.

In "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," Dorothy Parker recites her poetry to the camera in an incomprehensible drawl, meant to emphasize her dissoluteness and depression.

Besides, to strip it of its imaginary dignity, I must observe, that in the most uncivilized European states this lip-service prevails in a very great degree, accompanied with extreme dissoluteness of morals.

Amid the disillusion surrounding Watergate and the dissoluteness of the disco era, Fred Silverman, then the programming guru at ABC, ushered in such "jigglefests" as "Three's Company."

Recently found documents suggest that accusations about Rasputin's sexual dissoluteness were false (500-page document archive provided by Mstislav Rostropovich and investigated by Edvard Radzinsky).

Unfortunately, rather than being impressed by the Stronger Argument, which advocates virtue, excellence and moderation, Pheidippides is influenced more by the Weaker Argument, which advocates immorality, debauchery and dissoluteness.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.