drunkard
Americannoun
noun
Synonym Usage
See inebriate.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of drunkard
Example Sentences
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As the stock market alternatively displays the grace of a boxer and the oafishness of a drunkard, investors are once more confronting that which they fear most: volatility.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
With imaginative sympathy Tolstoy becomes a general in battle, a young girl at her first ball, a disillusioned prince, a drunkard, a lover—often amid a backdrop “laden with snow.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
"Our boy deserves answers and we as a family deserve answers. Nathan wasn't a drunkard who'd go out and forget about everything. Nathan was really with it," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025
Shakespeare’s Falstaff is a master of verbal invention, whose infinite self-knowledge keeps him always compelling even as he is a coward, a drunkard, and a thief.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2019
Instead of a bumbling drunkard there now stood in the path of the mob a giant man.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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