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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
Natasha Dye, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Dining in the three main dining rooms, buffets, fast-casual options, room service, and most non-alcoholic drinks, including sodas, are all part of the cost of a cruise.
—Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Vincent Schiraldi, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
He was never labeled no alcoholic.
—Christina Hall, Freep.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Noun
This includes not entering any tennis court, wearing shirts and footwear at all times, consuming alcoholic beverages responsibly and lawfully, and not opening umbrellas during play.
—Natasha Dye, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Dining in the three main dining rooms, buffets, fast-casual options, room service, and most non-alcoholic drinks, including sodas, are all part of the cost of a cruise.
—Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Probation was established in 1841 by Boston cobbler John Augustus, a reformed alcoholic whose efforts sought to reduce unnecessary incarceration.
—Vincent Schiraldi, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
He was never labeled no alcoholic.
—Christina Hall, Freep.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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Stray Bullets • In this week’s post-credits scene, Adrian removes the pants of the drunk, sleeping John Economos and plants a tender kiss on his forehead.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 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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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?—
Philip Delves Broughton,
WSJ,
16 Nov. 2018
Noun
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The controversial new trend of adding ice to beer has spread among young drinkers, prompting mixed reactions.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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But while a music festival is a perfect location to find a bunch of beer drinkers that will stick their arm in a box of mosquitoes, there are some drawbacks to doing research in a place like this.—
Eva Amsen,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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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
Noun
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Also very good are Orville Mendoza as the drunkard actor Selsdon, Matthew Patrick Davis as the production’s nervous jack-of-all-trades Tim and Abby Leigh Huffstetler as incompetent stage manager Poppy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 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
Adjective
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The film follows a wealthy socialite and a struggling writer who are thrown together at a debauched party.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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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To those who dismissed the film as simplistic and dopey, well, that was part of its eternal appeal.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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The dweller, like the pilots in the film, made dopey exclamations of awe.—
Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Alcoholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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