drunkard
Americannoun
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drunkards
plural
noun
Synonym Usage
See inebriate.
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Etymology
Origin of drunkard
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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
Franklin Pierce, although a Northerner, fiercely defended slavery while signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act; he was a drunkard to boot.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 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
Govinda said: 'You speak thus, my friend, and yet you know that Siddhartha is no driver of oxen and a Samana is no drunkard.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, pushed back saying that even early American presidents might have qualified as "habitual drunkards" by the standards of today.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
In our search for cosmic signals of dark matter, we could be likened to drunkards looking for lost keys beneath lampposts, where the light shines the brightest.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2022
Hence, it was prohibited during the Soviet era to photograph religious ceremonies, nudes, even “scruffy backyards and scrap-heaps, drunkards and beggars, people queuing for rarely sold products and squalid everyday life in general.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2013
The hour of the owl, the hour of the wolf, the hour of the nightingale, moonrise and moonset, dusk and dawn, they staggered past like drunkards.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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