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a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
one can be a social drinker without turning into an alcoholic
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Recent Examples of alcoholic
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Her father was exacting, an alcoholic whose fine tweed suits and leather shoes had to be pressed and shined just so.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Helen Regan, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
Throughout the latest season of Summer House, both expressed pursuing their passions outside of the alcoholic beverage brand Loverboy, with Batula interested in designing swimsuits and Cooke becoming a DJ.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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Noun
This person may not be able to outrun her inner alcoholic.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Her father was exacting, an alcoholic whose fine tweed suits and leather shoes had to be pressed and shined just so.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
Methanol is an alcohol chemical commonly used in industrial solvents, cleaning products and fuel, though it can be added to alcoholic drinks either inadvertently through traditional brewing methods or deliberately to boost the volume of alcoholic drinks – usually in the pursuit of profit.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
Throughout the latest season of Summer House, both expressed pursuing their passions outside of the alcoholic beverage brand Loverboy, with Batula interested in designing swimsuits and Cooke becoming a DJ.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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Lord John, who also copes by getting rip-roaring drunk, refuses to let Claire mourn Jamie alone.Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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Carson’s desire for control and solitude will be very familiar to readers who know dry drunks.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.Washington Post, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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Indeed, Black Barrel’s rationale was creating a Tequila that would appeal to American whiskey drinkers.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Hall was a moderate drinker who enjoyed wine or a cocktail at social gatherings.Allison Aubrey, NPR, 2 Dec. 2024
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Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall.Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
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But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause.Maurice Samuels / Made by History, TIME, 21 May 2024
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And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
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First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
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Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.Michael Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
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White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2022
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Claire’s dopey jock boyfriend Simon (Charlie Hall) generally annoys her with his requests for sexts and movie nights.Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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In the course of four weeks this summer, with data from only a couple of dozen players, the robot had progressed from dopey beginner to high intermediate.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
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The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
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“Alcoholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholic. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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