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
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
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
He is being lovingly tended, in a crapulous old age, by one of the hundred ladies he victimized.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
"And what conclusion do you draw from the fact that the crime is a crapulous one?" the magistrate proceeded to enquire.
From Fantômas by Metcalfe, Cranstoun
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