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Her father was a drunkard.
accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem
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And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
Winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the second of Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy finds Choi Min-sik as a drunkard who’s mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years, only to be unceremoniously released from captivity to discover what his past sins resulted in.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
Despite Wells’s outrage, spreading fear of intemperate immigrants and Black drunkards threatening the white Protestant family proved successful for the WCTU.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
Winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the second of Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy finds Choi Min-sik as a drunkard who’s mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years, only to be unceremoniously released from captivity to discover what his past sins resulted in.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
Despite Wells’s outrage, spreading fear of intemperate immigrants and Black drunkards threatening the white Protestant family proved successful for the WCTU.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Drunkard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drunkard. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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drunkard
noun
drunk·ard
ˈdrəŋ-kərd 
: a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
Medical Definition
drunkard
noun
drunk·ard
ˈdrəŋ-kərd
: one suffering from or subject to acute or chronic alcoholism : one who habitually becomes drunk
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