drunkard
Americannoun
noun
Synonym Usage
See inebriate.
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Origin of drunkard
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As the stock market alternatively displays the grace of a boxer and the oafishness of a drunkard, investors are once more confronting that which they fear most: volatility.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
All to communicate that this was a vigorous, healthy man of action, not an ailing drunkard.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
With imaginative sympathy Tolstoy becomes a general in battle, a young girl at her first ball, a disillusioned prince, a drunkard, a lover—often amid a backdrop “laden with snow.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
I live alone in a ramshackle Austin house that, by all accounts, was constructed by a drunkard before the advent of the square right angle.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2014
Melisandre knew a few by name: the cook Three-Finger Hobb, Mully with his greasy orange hair, the dim-witted boy called Owen the Oaf, the drunkard Septon Celladar.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, pushed back saying that even early American presidents might have qualified as "habitual drunkards" by the standards of today.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
In our search for cosmic signals of dark matter, we could be likened to drunkards looking for lost keys beneath lampposts, where the light shines the brightest.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2022
Otto von Bismarck, the 19th-century German chancellor, reportedly said that “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021
“Mostly just the hearts of those who are trying to realize their Personal Legends. But they do help children, drunkards, and the elderly, too.”
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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