1
as in excessiveness
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
a short, unhappy life characterized chiefly by insobriety
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as in alcoholism
habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants
her once-promising singing career was undermined by insobriety and emotional instability
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Recent Examples of insobriety
Morel-Cruz stayed at the scene, where he was arrested after officers determined his insobriety with field tests.
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Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2020
Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2020
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Described as semi-autobiographical, the play follows a year in the life of college student Josh (Ben Hirschhorn), whose alcoholism has led him from theater school in New York to the shores of a reservoir in his Colorado hometown.—
Chad Jones,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Other factors also contributed to Adair’s death, including hypertensive cardiovascular disease, and hepatic cirrhosis due to chronic alcoholism.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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In 1956, long before those flashy rhinestone jumpsuits, the infamous Jungle Room, and all the Vegas excess, Elvis was just a handsome, super-talented guy playing high schools and military bases along the Gulf coast.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Insobriety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insobriety. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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