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
Lindsey Desoto,
Health,
26 June 2026
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
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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
In a 2020 research review, green tea helped lower liver enzymes in people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Lindsey Desoto,
Health,
26 June 2026
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.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.
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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.
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.
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For coffee drinkers, the program introduces 52 distinct flavor releases over the course of the year.
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For many wine drinkers, sauvignon blanc seems to exist in two extremes.
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.
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In invalidating the comparisons, Gorsuch focused on the purpose of the laws aimed at the habitual drunkards of the 18th century.
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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.
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 3 Jul. 2026.
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