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That may yet prove to be the case, but it seems there’s a method to his crapulousness.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2012

The pains and weariness of moral crapulousness arise in nice proportion to the passion of the debauch.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

But the coincidental influence of poetry expressed by the best and richest men of the day had an effect so edulcifying that whatever crapulousness the knight overlooked the troubadour extinguished.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar