inebriated
Americanadjective
verb
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Explanation
Inebriated is just a fancy way of saying drunk. If you see a man staggering down the street grasping a bottle of rum in his hand, chances are he's inebriated. When you want to use an impressive word to say that someone is drunk, go ahead and use inebriated. If you like, you can also use it to refer to someone who is intoxicated with substances other than alcohol, but at its heart, inebriated simply means tanked, blotto, stinko, drunk. In more recent years, it has taken on the sense of being particularly energized or zany and exhilarated with drunkenness, but still drunk.
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Example Sentences
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“We all walked with her. She was perfectly OK. Not inebriated at all,” Merksamer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
He said when Depp was inebriated, he would also “insult his fans” and call them “remoras,” also known as suckerfish.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
Cuomo defended the food-with-drinks rule over his concerns about inebriated people mingling at bars without social distancing.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2021
Alternatively, a big dollop of very white, very thick cream is a fitting partner, making your patiently inebriated and majestic pears even more alluring.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2018
What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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