drunken
adjective
intoxicated; drunk.
half-drunken
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a word derived from
drunken.
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a word derived from
half-drunk.
Example Sentences
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At the outer entrance a half-drunken barkeeper was rubbing his eyes, and asking, "What's the row?"—but not another soul was stirring.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
The burly, half-drunken driver, in red-flannel shirt with a snake-whip in his armpit, his back to the bar, poured from a gurgling black bottle.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
They were followed at a distance by Lafonte’s half-drunken champions, who were by no means placated, owing to the fact that the Blue House was in a neighborhood friendly to the Government.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
His words were not the words of a coward, yet they were a plea for peace, they seemed reasonable even to the half-drunken ones who had been the readiest to fight.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
It may be an old cracked piano, with a single, half-drunken performer, or a couple or more musicians who cannot by any possible means draw melody from their wheezy instruments.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
