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Adjective
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The minibar is one of the room’s better surprises, stocked with local snacks and small-batch bottles (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) that feel more corner-boutique than cookie-cutter hotel, plus thoughtful extras like a Sleep & Recover kit complete with sleep gummies, focus mints, and eye gels.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Apr. 2026 -
The legislation adopted in 2024 permits jurisdictions to create areas where patrons can purchase an alcoholic drink from a brick-and-mortar business and consume that drink in the public right-of-way.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But unlike, say, Sheridan, who is interested in offering the down-home, traditional values of the Southwest as a positive alternative to coastal-élite liberalism, there’s no real upside to the debauched, unbridled world that Levinson presents.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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The sun shines on the empty wine bottles and related detritus of last night’s debauched party.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.—
Michael Stein,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2022
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White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.—
Nancy Bilyeau,
Town & Country,
1 Feb. 2022
Adjective
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Dane receives more screen time, but his dissolute, oft-drunk character is hard to watch knowing the actor’s offscreen battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.—
Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 Apr. 2026
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Ian Littleworth’s Happy, the dissolute son always looking for an easy way out, seems unsettled not only in his bearings but in his command of the script.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2022
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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?—
Philip Delves Broughton,
WSJ,
16 Nov. 2018
Adjective
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Yet most of the other inner moons tend to be dustier and rockier.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Trails like the River Canyon take you down to cool water and rocky viewpoints, while shorter paths such as Lava Bluffs are great for a quick scenic walk.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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The shoddy room in Lincoln where my mother died, strung out, with a bullet in her head.—
Nina C. Peláez,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2026
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Wehrlein also used some Attack Mode to join the lead pack as the field strung out in a manner uncommon to Formula E races.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Dipsomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dipsomaniacal. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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