tipsy
adjective
slightly intoxicated or drunk.
tipsiest
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superlativeof tipsy.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Written in "implacable" 14-hour stretches during a four-month "retirement in the mountains of New Hampshire," Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces is the year's tipsiest first novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneath a most capricious sky lives the least capricious people in the world, and yet this orderly and methodical nation possesses the tipsiest, most disordered architecture that eye can see.
From Holland, v. 1 (of 2) by Helen Zimmern
The tipsiest of his fellows slunk away from his side.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
It suddenly occurred to him, in one of those lucid moments which the tipsiest man will occasionally have, that the cemetery of Kirkcaldy formed a short cut to his house.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
