drunkard
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alcoholic, alkie (or alky) [slang], boozehound, boozer, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, inebriate, juicehead [slang], juicer [slang], lush, rummy, soak, soaker, sot, souse, tippler, toper, tosspot
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The drunkard is sober enough to navigate a whole block before making a random choice at the next intersection. — Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘A Drunkard’s Walk in Manhattan’," 7 Sep. 2016 Sir Toby is sassy, a sybarite and a drunkard, but Steven Barkhimer was almost sober. — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, "‘Twelfth Night’ Review: A Bland Transposition," 11 July 2019 The drunkard’s walk, at the level of atoms and molecules, has long been known to underlie Brownian motion and the diffusion of fluids. — Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘A Drunkard’s Walk in Manhattan’," 7 Sep. 2016 But along the way Franklin met a friend of his, a drunkard down on his luck. — Sam Kean, WSJ, "‘Young Benjamin Franklin’ Review: Poor Richard Sows His Oats," 17 Sep. 2018 Her concern reminds me of Abraham Lincoln’s response when advised that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was a drunkard and should be fired. — WSJ, "Trump Gossip Can’t Overshadow His Triumphs," 4 Jan. 2019 But one bar in Kerala, India decided to enforce the drunkard's walk late last year. — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, "Pass Through a Maze to Enter This Bar in India? Challenge Accepted," 16 July 2018 If Hines sounds like a far cry from the slick-talking drunkard Toby Jones, that’s no accident. — Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, "Robert Hines, of 'Toby Jones' fame, is very funny, and very serious about his new direction," 2 July 2018 Their models animate like drunkards and have a habit of looking over Jon’s right shoulder at all times. — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, "Vampyr review: Dead in the daylight," 6 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'drunkard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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