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Recent Examples of barfly
This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.
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Kyle Wagner,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026
McLean was last seen on screen as a barfly in a season 7 episode of Netflix's Virgin River.
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 May 2026
Most recently, McLean played a barfly on a 2026 episode of Virgin River, the Netflix drama that films in British Columbia.
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Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
Hawke renders Hart as the most erudite barfly to buzz around mid-century Manhattan.
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Kyle McGovern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Kyle Wagner,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026
McLean was last seen on screen as a barfly in a season 7 episode of Netflix's Virgin River.
—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 May 2026
Most recently, McLean played a barfly on a 2026 episode of Virgin River, the Netflix drama that films in British Columbia.
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Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
Hawke renders Hart as the most erudite barfly to buzz around mid-century Manhattan.
—
Kyle McGovern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barfly
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Sam Sanders grew up in anger; his father, an alcoholic, would come home from work furious, Matt says, beating Sam with his belt.
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The child of alcoholics, Dreesen often referenced his rough-and-tumble upbringing in his comedy sets, telling tales of little Tommy shining shoes in the taverns of the South Side to feed his siblings.
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Erin Murphy, the attorney representing Hemani, countered that the whole point of the historical laws was to distinguish between drinkers and drunkards.
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The 48-year-old musician repeated his anti-Jewish rhetoric in a 2025 post insisting his words aren’t the ramblings of a drunkard.
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One of American drama's most intriguing case studies, Hickey is the hardware salesman who returns to his old tawdry haunt not on one of his periodic benders but on a mission to reform the resident inebriates of their belief in a better tomorrow.
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The group proposed extending the winter shelter through May, boosting treatment for serial inebriates and reporting all homeless incidents and issues to a single coordinator.
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At first glance, The Blue Stoops looks like your classic British boozer.
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In Manchester's Northern Quarter, diners slurp oysters to a late-night DJ soundtrack; in Glasgow, Basque cooking is taking center stage; in Leeds, a Victorian boozer is the best place to eat right now.
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Yet the occasional poignancy of both Toby and Andrew, the sot and the fool, doesn’t emerge in this production.
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How consumers -- especially younger drinkers -- answer them will determine whether an industry long defined by fuddy-duddy pretense can find its footing in 2026 and beyond.
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That’s a good thing for drinkers—and a more competitive landscape for brands.
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“Barfly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barfly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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