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
Fat, untidy and crapulous, �vejk is a natural disaster as a soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
This wretched monk, he concluded, must have possessed a damnably intimate knowledge of Nepenthean conditions, and a cantankerous and crapulous turn of mind, into the bargain.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
But Assurbanipal, while probably fiendish and certainly crapulous, was clearly literary besides.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
You may have glanced, one day, at his crapulous verses.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
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