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
“Hech, Patey M’Brair, is this you?” said he, a trifle tipsily.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson
