half-intoxicated
- a word derived from intoxicated.
Example Sentences
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Miss Saunders' compliments, her confidences, half-intoxicated the girl.
From Saturday's Child by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
Easy," almost whispered Habershaw, now half-intoxicated, to the two troopers, as he lifted his hands and motioned to them to halt; "put them down gently on the ground.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
Hung Wapu now accompanied one of his Chinese guests up the cellar-steps to the street, and sitting down on the top step began to chat in a low voice with his apparently half-intoxicated countryman.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich
To Foma it seemed that he resembled a swab with which the steamer decks are washed, and this amused the half-intoxicated fellow.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman
Sitting on the beams, Foma rocked his whole body to and fro, and out of the darkness, from the river, various human figures appeared silently before him—sailors, stokers, clerks, waiters, half-intoxicated painted women, and tavern-loungers.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman
