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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Fat, untidy and crapulous, �vejk is a natural disaster as a soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
In those crapulous times, 50 years ago, he was no nicer than others, and far more energetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
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 West, Julius
At that hour, the blackest of all, there was proposed to the crapulous barons an ideal.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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