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dissolute
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synonyms: libertine, rakish, profligate,licentious, voluptuous ~casuistry ???
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Definition:having a non-functioning moral compass
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in spite of the dissolute life, and in especial the drunken habits, for which he was notorious, was quite one of the court circle.
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Since their visit to Gania's home, Rogojin's followers had been increased by two new recruits— a dissolute old man, the hero of some ancient scandal, and a retired sub-lieutenant. A laughable story was told of the former.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary.
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