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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Wafting in the Shakespearean sublime one minute, sozzled in a dark pub with theater cronies the next, Plummer received an immersive education in both the majesty and the frailty of the actor’s life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
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
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
On the plus side Updike deals with human ambiguity, with sozzled morality, the laureate of the dufus, the boor and the glutton.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
All I could do was to stammer and splutter like a bass viol tuning up, while I sozzled around in my chair trying to break in with something that would count.
From Cupid's Middleman by Lent, Edward B.
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