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
The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.
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Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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
Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crapulous
drunken
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The show presented the moment as Sullivan, who had a boyfriend at the time of filming the 2004 cycle months prior in 2003, having a drunken one-off affair with one of the male models in attendance.
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Years of advocacy led by victims’ families exposed mistakes and wrongdoing by police – who initially spread a false narrative blaming drunken fans – and extracted an apology from the government.
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“Crapulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapulous. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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