crapulous

American  

[krap-yuh-luhs] / ˈkræp yə ləs /

adjective

1. given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating.

2. suffering from or due to such excess.

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Other Word Forms

• crapulously adverb
• crapulousness noun

Etymology

Origin of crapulous

First recorded in 1530–40; from Late Latin crāpulōsus, “inclined to drunkenness”; crapulent, -ous

Example Sentences

And his turn of phrase is as arresting as Runciman’s own—one family friend is “unceremonious, crapulous”.

From Economist

Vietnamese women are slightly more apt to get crapulous each week than that country’s men.

From Salon

The gentleman in question, a battered and crapulous cab-tout, presented himself for inspection, and one of the policemen offered to accompany him and impress the reported keeper with the urgency of the situation.

From Project Gutenberg

At that hour, the blackest of all, there was proposed to the crapulous barons an ideal.

From Project Gutenberg

There, under the impenetrable alias of the number of his bed, the crapulous being lay for some more days unconscious of all things, and of one thing in particular: that the police were after him.

From Project Gutenberg