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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
Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 May 2025
Delia is a recovering alcoholic, after all, and with the scent Erivo could carry that past with her as well as a certain amount of freshness that comes with working on an apple farm.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
Dr. Zakia Jabarkheel, ABC News, 22 May 2025
The season kicks off as lawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail’s (Jewel Staite) life is in complete shambles after boyfriend Ben (Benjamin Ayres) falls off, Sofia (Eden Summer Gilmore) writes an essay about her mom’s addiction and Harry (Victor Garber) passes her over.
—Matt Minton, Variety, 21 May 2025
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Noun
Tracker's season 2 finale centers primarily on the disappearance of Bill Weaver (Brian Keane), a local restaurateur and recovering alcoholic.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 May 2025
Delia is a recovering alcoholic, after all, and with the scent Erivo could carry that past with her as well as a certain amount of freshness that comes with working on an apple farm.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
Adjective
The advisory recommended adding cancer risk warning labels to alcoholic beverages.
—Dr. Zakia Jabarkheel, ABC News, 22 May 2025
The season kicks off as lawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail’s (Jewel Staite) life is in complete shambles after boyfriend Ben (Benjamin Ayres) falls off, Sofia (Eden Summer Gilmore) writes an essay about her mom’s addiction and Harry (Victor Garber) passes her over.
—Matt Minton, Variety, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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Sliwa hoped that the mere presence of his Magnificent Thirteen would force petty criminals to think twice before snatching a woman’s necklace or rolling a drunk.—
Kent Russell,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Nora wants no part of the movie or of him, calling him a drunk who has caused the family nothing but pain.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
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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Aside from his bibulous peculiarities, Old Roy is generous, brave, courteous and a keen lover of fun.—
John MacCormack,
San Antonio Express-News,
20 Jan. 2018
Noun
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According to the Bacardi 2025 Cocktail Trend Report, 20% of drinkers aged 21 to 25 now prefer lower-alcohol cocktails.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Before that, a 2018 study from the National Cancer Institute also found that coffee drinkers were less likely to die early than those who didn't drink the beverage.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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Nick, a prequel to the original, offers us Carraway’s backstory as a soldier in World War I and a wanderer trying to find his way in a dissolute world.—
Danielle Teller,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, moved across the country following the death of his dissolute, larger-than-life father, and made a series of homes in mill towns north of Boston with his mother, who was a schoolteacher, and his younger sister.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Yes, Agathe gets caught up in a love triangle with the dopey but appealing Félix and the perma-mad but very alluring Oliver, and of course her writer’s block ebbs and flows, all of it bolstered by the positively Regency-perfect surroundings, but there’s more to it.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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Fortunately, that’s no longer the case, thanks largely to the leadership of Andrew Cuomo, who did a great job except for the dopey AirTrain, which was correctly killed off by his successor.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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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 17 Jun. 2025.
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