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
drunken
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Assistant state’s attorneys will assist police in obtaining search warrants to conduct blood, breath or urine tests on people who are stopped on suspicion of drunken driving and refuse to submit to testing as required by Illinois law, the release said.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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In a stunning decision, the jury in her retrial voted unanimously to only convict Read of drunken driving sparing her any jail time.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
28 June 2025
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“Crapulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapulous. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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