insobriety
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of insobriety
Example Sentences
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“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
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
Morland suspended for a time his habit of insobriety, discarded the social comrades of his laxer hours, and imagined himself reformed.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
The least motion of the affections and heart that way, is insobriety, and inordinate affections.
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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