hard-drinking

adjective

—used to describe a person who often drinks a lot of alcohol

He had a troubled relationship with his violent, hard-drinking father.

Examples of hard-drinking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 1953, things came to a head when she was sent home from India while filming Elephant Walk with her hard-drinking, enabling lover Peter Finch. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026

Bender Voiced by John DiMaggio in the original Futurama series and Hulu’s revival, the hard-drinking, harder-smoking Bender is a robot who works for Planet Express alongside intergalactic aviation expert Leela (Katey Sagal). — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026

With his gregarious nature and hard-drinking demeanor, Lobo is an intimidating extraterrestrial mercenary and bounty hunter, but his origin story is brutal, even by those standards. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 6 June 2026

The hard-drinking, hyper-sensitive Fitzgerald himself would have winced at any of the five adaptations of The Great Gatsby. — Peter Bart, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026

Buddy, a hard-drinking gas-station attendant, and his distracted wife, Pattie, an accident-prone hypochondriac expecting her second child, are the parents of Kimberly, who’s on the cusp of her 16th birthday. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025

The free-living, hard-drinking Brett uses wit and jollity to mask her inner desperation. — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025

Rhymes for hard-drinking

• freethinking
• rethinking
• unblinking
• unthinking
• blinking
• clinking
• drinking
• inking
• kinking
• linking
• shrinking
• sinking