crapulous
Americanadjective
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given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating.
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suffering from or due to such excess.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of crapulous
First recorded in 1530–40; from Late Latin crāpulōsus, “inclined to drunkenness”; see origin at crapulent, -ous
Example Sentences
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In those crapulous times, 50 years ago, he was no nicer than others, and far more energetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among these was the Charivari, which incontinently laughed at the whole system of the establishment, from the crapulous, corpulent, and Voltairien Etienne, down to the lowest printer's devil.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
Hosts of unclean birds and crapulous insects can pass through the sky, but they cannot pass any communication between it and the earth.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
In 1900, directed against the crapulous exoticism of contemporary literature, it was an antidote, childhood was being used as a medicine against an assumed attack of second childhood.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
Rather than such cockney sentimentality as this as an education for the taste and sympathies, we prefer the most crapulous group of boors that Teniers ever painted.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke
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