as in drunken
given to excessive use of alcoholic beverages
a crapulous wastrel who went through the family's once-fabulous fortune in less than a decade
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Recent Examples of crapulous
Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.
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Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
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
Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crapulous
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In the plane with me were the pilot and our drunken passenger.—
Charles Elliott,
Outdoor Life,
1 May 2025
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Her continued testimony is expected to play a crucial role in the trial over whether Read killed O’Keefe, her boyfriend, in January 2022 with her SUV during a drunken fit of rage, or whether she was framed for his murder by law enforcement officers.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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“Crapulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapulous. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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