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 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 The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk. Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021

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“Crapulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapulous. Accessed 19 Dec. 2024.

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