放浪 has two flavors: (1) negative — 'dissolute, debauched' (
放浪生活 'a dissolute life'); (2) literary/positive — 'unfettered, free-spirited' (
放浪形骸 'unrestrained in manner'). The famous four-character set phrase
放浪不羁 (fànglàng bùjī, 'unbridled and untamed') is usually admiring rather than condemning.