sozzled
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sozzled
First recorded in 1875–80; dialectal sozzle “confused state, sloppy person” (earlier sossle; akin to souse 1 ) + -ed 3; cf. soused
Example Sentences
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There’s no question whose side “Mank” is on, especially since Oldman invests the man with such rumpled grace, sozzled wit and bittersweet feeling.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2020
The Times critic Charles Isherwood, reviewing the production, which began in Chicago, at Steppenwolf Theatre, wrote that Coon “imbues the sozzled Honey with a sweet sympathy and a hint of a backbone.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
His voice sounds like a sozzled toddler on a bungee cord.
From Slate • Aug. 12, 2016
Harvey , the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1944 comedy by Mary Chase, introduces a sweet, slightly sozzled fellow whose best friend is an invisible 6-foot-tall rabbit.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2015
You see she got her feet all sozzled last night coming home across the plazzer from church with that there Dr. Kirby, and so she took cold, of course.
From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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