insobriety

[ in-suh-brahy-i-tee ]

noun

1. lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.

insobriety

/ ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ /

noun

1. lack of sobriety; intemperance

Word History and Origins

Origin of insobriety¹

First recorded in 1605–15; in- ³ + sobriety

Example Sentences

Insobriety is, as I need hardly tell you, the one unpardonable sin in the eyes of a shipowner.

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That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety.

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The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.

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For a period he was engaged as a salesman, till habits of insobriety rendered his services unavailable to his employer.

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She had even survived the Cesarean operation, and reached a great age notwithstanding her scandalous insobriety.

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