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dissipated

/ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/ adjective C2
  1. Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure. · He recalled his dissipated youth spent in nightclubs and bars.
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The ice cream was delicious, Marilla, and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there eating it at eleven o’clock at night.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 239 · C1
We heard later that our poor old friend never got over the shock of his dissipated dreams.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 95 · B2
Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 48 · B2
I should wish to keep my illusions concerning insects unimpaired; it is quite enough to have those dissipated which I had formed of my fellow-creatures.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 641 · C1

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