as in drunks
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 alcoholics
AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
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Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Erdoğan’s speeches are full of practical advice about how to destroy the left, such as calling progressives lazy, impractical alcoholics funded by globalist lobbies and contrasting the efficiency of an imperial president with the messiness of parliamentary policymaking.
—Kaya Genç, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
Because his subject was surrounded by colorful and often unpredictable characters—alcoholics, neurotics, and blowhards—Perkins’s self-effacing qualities make for a dramatic contrast and a wealth of wild stories.
—Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Most notable was that the functional and young adult subtypes represented roughly between 19% to 31% of all alcoholics, while the chronic severe subtype represented only 9%—yet the latter has become the stereotype.
—Sarah Allen Benton, SELF, 23 Dec. 2025
Some, like photojournalist Lee Miller, became alcoholics.
—Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
His wife Lois founded Alateen, a group for the children of alcoholics, and co-founded Al-Anon Family Groups to help family members of alcoholics.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.
—Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
This is a man who is the child of two alcoholics.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Erdoğan’s speeches are full of practical advice about how to destroy the left, such as calling progressives lazy, impractical alcoholics funded by globalist lobbies and contrasting the efficiency of an imperial president with the messiness of parliamentary policymaking.
—Kaya Genç, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
Because his subject was surrounded by colorful and often unpredictable characters—alcoholics, neurotics, and blowhards—Perkins’s self-effacing qualities make for a dramatic contrast and a wealth of wild stories.
—Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Most notable was that the functional and young adult subtypes represented roughly between 19% to 31% of all alcoholics, while the chronic severe subtype represented only 9%—yet the latter has become the stereotype.
—Sarah Allen Benton, SELF, 23 Dec. 2025
Some, like photojournalist Lee Miller, became alcoholics.
—Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
His wife Lois founded Alateen, a group for the children of alcoholics, and co-founded Al-Anon Family Groups to help family members of alcoholics.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.
—Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
This is a man who is the child of two alcoholics.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholics
Noun
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The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.—
John Penner,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Caffeinated coffee drinkers also showed a lower prevalence of cognitive decline, the researchers said.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Among tea drinkers, people who consumed the most had a 14% lower risk than those who consumed the least.—
Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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These laws also applied to habitual drunkards, the mentally ill and others determined to be dangerous to the public.—
Morgan Marietta,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Alcoholics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholics. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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