half-drunk
Britishadjective
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These boycotts are often comically short-lived, such as when former President Donald Trump called on his supporters to skip drinking Coca-Cola after the soda manufacturer spoke out against restrictive voting laws in its home state of Georgia — only for online sleuths to quickly point out a half-drunk bottle of Diet Coke on his desk just a few days later.
From Salon
"You'd walk into an office, there would be a coffee cup half-drunk, a doughnut with a bite taken out of it," he says.
From BBC
I am at best a casual soccer fan, but I can still tell you that when Zinedine Zidane head-butted Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final between Italy and France, I was standing next to friends from my summer job, holding a half-drunk glass of vodka and cranberry juice that had become pale and watery from melted ice.
From New York Times
Nearby, pigeons patrolled the gutters as men huddled around a table littered with paper cups, a half-drunk bottle of Evian and a pack of Marlboro Golds.
From Los Angeles Times
By episode’s end he was facedown in the same room, battered, banished and probably still half-drunk, which seemed like a return to the natural order of things.
From New York Times
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