insobriety
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of insobriety
Example Sentences
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This makes me think that we ought to be grateful to have so glaring an example of insobriety before our eyes.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
The shadow of insobriety and incontinence doesn't touch the characters who move across these pages, and yet the level of the life is pictured as debased, and habits as hideous.
From The Conquest of Fear by King, Basil
“Great Britain,” says Lloyd George, “must be freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, and the tyranny of man over man.”
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
Ye seek it as if it were your portion and inheritance, surely this is insobriety.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
On this subject the writer reproduces his opinion as expressed in ‘Oars and Sculls’ in 1873:— The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
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