Etymology From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
1
Unrestrained by morality.
2
Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).2023 October 4, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times:
Etymology From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
1
An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
[H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.1879, The Quarterly Review, volume 148, page 263: