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There can be no dissimulation between honest people.
dissipate v. 1 scatter, spread (out), disperse, be dispelled, diffuse;
disseminate, sow, distribute; break up: The crowd had
dissipated by noon. 2 spread thin, evaporate, vanish,
disappear, vaporize, peter out, diminish: By the time we were
ready to go, the clouds had dissipated. 3 squander, waste,
fritter away, throw away, burn up, use up, exhaust, run through:
By the time he was twenty, he had dissipated a huge fortune. 4
revel, carouse, party, sow one's wild oats, burn the candle at
both ends, roister, make merry, debauch, go on a spree: Before
their marriage, he was seen dissipating in the fleshpots of
Europe.
dissipation
n. 1 squandering, waste, wastefulness, profligacy, abandon,
abandonment, self-indulgence, self-gratification,
overindulgence, intemperance, hedonism, fast or high living,
dolce vita, voluptuousness, sensualism, sybaritism,
dissoluteness, dissolution, excess(es), wantonness, debauchery,
carousing, prodigality, recklessness, extravagance, rakishness:
Owing to my dissipation, I had become an alcoholic vagrant. 2
disappearance, dispersion, dispersal, diffusion, scattering,
vanishing: The dissipation of the tear-gas was rapid in the
strong breeze. 3 distraction, amusement, diversion,
entertainment: Reading, once a dissipation, had become an
obsession.
dissociate
v. separate, cut off, sever, disassociate, disjoin, disconnect,
abstract, disengage, detach, isolate, distance, break off
(from), break up (with), divorce, set apart, segregate: I have
carefully dissociated myself from any political party.
dissolute adj. dissipated, debauched, abandoned, corrupt, degenerate,
rakish, profligate, wanton, rakehell, intemperate, incontinent,
loose, licentious, overindulgent, carousing, self-indulgent,
hedonistic, pleasure-bound, immoral, amoral, libidinous,
unrestrained, depraved: He has paid dearly for his dissolute
life.
dissolution
n. 1 disintegration, separation, breakup, breakdown,