dipsomaniac

How to use dipsomaniac in a sentence

• The present Duke had none of the spirit or sense of his ancestors, and was, moreover, a dipsomaniac.

  Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge

• The drunkard who drinks in spite of himself is, strictly speaking, a dipsomaniac, and is diseased and insane.

  A Plea for the Criminal | James Leslie Allan Kayll

• In a small room on the roof lived a Hindustani hospital assistant—the gentlemanly dipsomaniac whom I have already introduced.

  At the Court of the Amr | John Alfred Gray

• If Fate had really marked him out for a dipsomaniac, was it any use his fighting against what must inevitably be his destiny?

  The Missionary | George Griffith

• There Grogan succeeded in convincing him of the folly of engaging in a street argument with a dipsomaniac he did not know.

  Little Lost Sister | Virginia Brooks