plastered
adjective
plas·tered
ˈpla-stərd 
slang
: drunk, intoxicated
Move over, children. Go eat your mini eggs somewhere else as your auntie wants to get plastered.—
Mel Ramsay
Mel Ramsay… oh we were plastered, we barely knew what we were doing …—Dave Eggers
Dave EggersCollege boys could get totally plastered, and the worst that would happen to them would be hangovers and missed morning classes.—Katha Pollitt
Katha PollittExamples of plastered in a Sentence
I got totally plastered at the party.
I don't believe it: you're totally plastered at your own dinner party.
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Three little raggedy boys sit in a row pressed against each other on a mound of rubble in front of a worn plastered brick wall in 1915 in Esztergom, Hungary, Kertész’s homeland.
—Donna Seaman
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Their plastered smiles and scripted pleasantries represented a great loss of emotional freedom and a new level of managerial control.
—TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
And the room, van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, with its rough-hewn bed frame and the restful violet color of the plastered walls.
—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022
The wide kitchen windowsill holds an assortment of Santa Clauses, and snow people find a home in the built-in, plastered niche in the dining room.
—oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2022
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Donna Seaman
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Their plastered smiles and scripted pleasantries represented a great loss of emotional freedom and a new level of managerial control.
—TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
And the room, van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, with its rough-hewn bed frame and the restful violet color of the plastered walls.
—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022
The wide kitchen windowsill holds an assortment of Santa Clauses, and snow people find a home in the built-in, plastered niche in the dining room.
—oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2022
See All Example Sentences for plastered
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“Plastered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plastered. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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