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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
Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
The slogan put the audience in the shoes of a casually bigoted, insubordinate alcoholic who bends the NYPD’s rules in pursuit of drug runners.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adding another layer to the already shocking discoveries, the raid report also revealed that someone made an unsubstantiated claim that the MDMA had been mixed into alcoholic drinks and served to females at the home.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Noun
An alcoholic, my mother was highly abusive, both psychologically and physically.
—Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
The slogan put the audience in the shoes of a casually bigoted, insubordinate alcoholic who bends the NYPD’s rules in pursuit of drug runners.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
Deputies with the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Spring Lake Market on Saturday after Richard Christopher Smith, 39, allegedly took items from a market, including several alcoholic beverages, and walked out.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adding another layer to the already shocking discoveries, the raid report also revealed that someone made an unsubstantiated claim that the MDMA had been mixed into alcoholic drinks and served to females at the home.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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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
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However, in a season 35 episode, Kristen Wiig portrayed the host as a bumbling and disoriented drunk, and Gifford was not happy.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
14 Apr. 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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So why do winemakers and drinkers put up with all this heartbreak?—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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After four months, the regular drinkers reduced their alcohol intake from an average of 23.2 units per week to 7.8 units week.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
9 May 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
Noun
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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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This is pretty much your standard-issue focus-group scene, with dopey viewers idiotically nitpicking irrelevant details.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Cranston will also reprise his role as Hal, Malcolm's sweet, dopey dad, in the revival.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 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 27 May. 2025.
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