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
If the moment were but favourable, who knows but what at some oblivious and crapulous moment the Emperor might be induced to sign an order for our philosopher's recall?
From Seekers after God by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat; And one was eaten up with vice and verminous at that.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
He is being lovingly tended, in a crapulous old age, by one of the hundred ladies he victimized.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
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