tipsiness

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of tipsiness This alleyway, right next to Kyoto’s main Kamo River, is packed with tiny, pristine bars and yakitori, an excellent place to sit outside and watch people—of all ages and nationalities and levels of tipsiness—flow by. Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipsiness
Noun
  • On September 30, 2025, Festus Police in Missouri arrested him for public intoxication and notified ICE.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The intoxication thesis says this is all wrong.
    Big Think, Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Begging or drunkenness could mean a week to a couple of months on a chain gang, grading and paving roads, fixing bridges, hauling debris, and otherwise helping to construct the fast-growing city.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Not even a day after Bethea’s denial of his confession due to drunkenness, a white jail guard said that Bethea had confessed privately to him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For all the revelry, there was a tough, discursive seriousness in the approach that Lang and O’Hara took to their labors in the late forties and early fifties.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Thirty-two in-person bands were scheduled to join in the revelry Sunday, organizers said, with 11 from Massachusetts and others from Seattle to New Orleans to Minneapolis.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Tipsiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipsiness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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