tipsy
adjective
slightly intoxicated or drunk.
tipsily
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a word derived from
tipsy.
Example Sentences
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The story is pure dialogue between the star, Baby, and director, Toner: They’ve forgotten much of the plot and tipsily put it together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
A disco ball ambitiously sparkled for nobody but two mullet-sporting ladies tipsily writhing by a bistro table.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2023
It’s also a mystery and a kind of love story and this being the theater, there is at least one dinner party that goes hopelessly, tipsily, smolderingly wrong.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
At one point Ecbert’s son, Aethelwulf, tipsily greets Ragnar and the viking King dismisses him with a brusque “I don’t like you.”
From Forbes ● Mar. 13, 2015
The front wheel wobbled tipsily and the fender was torn off, but these it appeared were not mortal wounds.
From The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
