as in alcoholic
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem
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Recent Examples of drunkard
And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
Winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the second of Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy finds Choi Min-sik as a drunkard who’s mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years, only to be unceremoniously released from captivity to discover what his past sins resulted in.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
The film stars Sjöström as a dispirited drunkard named David Holm who is forced to reflect on his past mistakes by the driver of Death’s carriage, who is chosen each year at the strike of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
Winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the second of Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy finds Choi Min-sik as a drunkard who’s mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years, only to be unceremoniously released from captivity to discover what his past sins resulted in.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
The film stars Sjöström as a dispirited drunkard named David Holm who is forced to reflect on his past mistakes by the driver of Death’s carriage, who is chosen each year at the strike of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drunkard
Noun
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Their father is an alcoholic, their mother is dead, and their relationship with one another is strained.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.—
John Penner,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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On average, one person is killed around every 42 minutes in a drunk-driving accident, totaling more than 12,000 deaths each year.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
31 Dec. 2025
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