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dissipated
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{adj}
synonyms: profligate, dissolute, rakish, raffish, libertine, voluptuous ???
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Definition:overindulging in sensual pleasures
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he had been idle and mischievous, and therefore was one of the lowest in his class. But in spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is such a dissipated young man
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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