as in drunk
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
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
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Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
True to the event’s title, there will be a wide selection of beers, as well as wine and non-alcoholic drink, plenty of barbecue and other culinary offerings, arts and crafts vendors, an instrument petting zoo and other fun stuff.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
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Noun
After the war, his goalscoring statistics were deleted and his achievements were discredited, with the Polish press labelling him as mentally unstable and an alcoholic.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
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Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
Adjective
Now, Cady is a former restaurateur and womanizer who became a tabloid sensation after his pregnant wife disappeared; his defense attorney, the young, pregnant, alcoholic Anna, seemingly guided him toward a plea deal engineered by Tom.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
True to the event’s title, there will be a wide selection of beers, as well as wine and non-alcoholic drink, plenty of barbecue and other culinary offerings, arts and crafts vendors, an instrument petting zoo and other fun stuff.
—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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The Burgess Park/Blessington Street Basin spin is easy duty really compared to the Finsbury Park/Ranelagh Gardens spin, where I was laid out once like a drunk for a good half hour.
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Dan, the big blond, kicks every drunk that comes near him.
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.
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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?
Noun
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How consumers -- especially younger drinkers -- answer them will determine whether an industry long defined by fuddy-duddy pretense can find its footing in 2026 and beyond.
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That’s a good thing for drinkers—and a more competitive landscape for brands.
Adjective
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First filmed before the pandemic and launched in its throes, a survivor of the era of streaming wars, corporate consolidation and Hollywood strikes, HBO’s addictively dissolute workplace drama remains as ambitious and authoritative as ever.
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His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme.
Noun
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Erin Murphy, the attorney representing Hemani, countered that the whole point of the historical laws was to distinguish between drinkers and drunkards.
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The 48-year-old musician repeated his anti-Jewish rhetoric in a 2025 post insisting his words aren’t the ramblings of a drunkard.
Adjective
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His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme.
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Firstman stars as Peter, a debauched millennial aging out of a New York scene that never cared about him as a person in the first place.
Adjective
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Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.
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White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.
Adjective
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The concept was already mildly stale in 1983; in 2026, jokes about Nate learning to use a toaster or a GPS come off as well past their expiration date, no matter how earnestly dopey a performance Bargatze gives.
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Originally, the dopey jock role had been filled by actor Steven Ford.
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“Alcoholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholic. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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