Which preposition to use with dissolute
He was, in truth, a type of that era in England: vulgar in aims; dissolute in conduct; ostentatious, vain-gloriousof a low, ephemeral ambition; but at the same time talented, acute, and lavish to the lettered.
Men of austere Principles look upon Mirth as too wanton and dissolute for a State of Probation, and as filled with a certain Triumph and Insolence of Heart, that is inconsistent with a Life which is every Moment obnoxious to the greatest Dangers.
So that was Monsieur le Duc d'Orléans, the King's cousin, the King's enemy, as many already knew, the wildest, the most dissolute of all the wild, dissolute youth of Paris, the boon companion of the Duke of York, the destroyer of the unfortunate Prince de Lamballes, the hero of a thousand chroniques scandaleuses of the day!
A man who has been dissolute before marriage will very seldom be faithful afterwards.
Whatever wise and good examples he might find in the family where he had the honour to reside, it is certain that the French court, during the regency of the Duke of Orleans, was one of the most dissolute under heaven.