as in drunken
given to excessive use of alcoholic beverages
a crapulous wastrel who went through the family's once-fabulous fortune in less than a decade
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Recent Examples of crapulous
The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.
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Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.
—Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.
—Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crapulous
drunken
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The two girls were killed in a drunken-driving hit-and-run collision, theDepartment of Homeland Security said, by a man in the United States illegally who fled the scene of the crime.—
Taylor Romine,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Court records show that Nechville was convicted of drunken driving in 2019 and 2023.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Crapulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapulous. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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