tipsy
adjective
slightly intoxicated or drunk.
tipsiness
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a word derived from
tipsy.
Example Sentences
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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
The story, however, of Charles Townshend's tipsiness is thus contradicted by a graver authority, Sir George Colebrook, in his Memoirs.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
