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Recent Examples of tipsy One day, the resort hosts a grand festival and the younger daughter, slightly tipsy, boards her family’s yacht and sails out, before waking up the next morning and finding the prince onboard. Sara Merican, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025 Darkly tipsy aromas that include rum, fruit cake, maraschino cherries, slight petrol and carrot cake. Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025 An arrangement by Thomas Adès of Conlon Nancarrow’s Study No. 6, one of his ingenious player-piano exercises, somehow transformed complex rhythmic layerings into a blithe, tipsy rumba. Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 The crowd is diverse, ranging from tipsy college students to international visitors. Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 2 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tipsy
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Adjective
  • The woman, who is five-months pregnant, explained on the community forum Mumsnet that she was left looking after her 4-year-old son at a wedding after her husband decided to get drunk at the wedding party.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Malcolm is only getting drunker and more sullen as the reception progresses.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In addition to the exploding festival stage, there’s a drunken bachelorette wreck, plus a jaw-dropping boy-with-the-red-balloon moment involving a little girl and a kite.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • After a drunken night out at Big Belly Burger, Chris and Harcourt stumbled onto a rock cruise fronted by hard rock duo Nelson and ended up sharing a dance and a kiss.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • LaSyl Natural Cooking Oil Solidifier While fried foods are one of the world’s finest creations, making them at home is really a chore.
    Lauren Silbert, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The whole house smells of fried cheese, or something wonderful has been cooked around here.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Tipsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipsy. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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