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They have a joyful, slapstick air, either from tipsiness or maybe the thrill of seeing their young friend’s painting on public view in Paris.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

For the most part, the show had the hallmarks of a normal Golden Globes ceremony—mainly goofiness and tipsiness.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 9, 2017

The entitled New Yorker in me balked at the cover-charge, and, in any case, the aggregate level of tipsiness hinted that it might be time to let the crew have its fun unsurveilled.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2013

The weight loss itself did not account for the changes in breath alcohol or tipsiness, according to the researchers.

From Reuters • Mar. 16, 2011

Something in the pedagogue's tone, I suppose, or in Ned's stage of tipsiness at the moment, gave the speech an inflammatory effect.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Stephens, Robert Neilson