insobriety
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of insobriety
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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 Norman Douglas
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 Shearjashub Spooner
Ye seek it as if it were your portion and inheritance, surely this is insobriety.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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 W. B. Woodgate
The least motion of the affections and heart that way, is insobriety, and inordinate affections.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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