as in alcoholic
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem
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Recent Examples of drunkard
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
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
The film stars Sjöström as a dispirited drunkard named David Holm who is forced to reflect on his past mistakes by the driver of Death’s carriage, who is chosen each year at the strike of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 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
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 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
The film stars Sjöström as a dispirited drunkard named David Holm who is forced to reflect on his past mistakes by the driver of Death’s carriage, who is chosen each year at the strike of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drunkard
Noun
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At the time, the filmmaker felt Hawke was too young to begin production; Hart was a longtime alcoholic and Blue Moon focuses on a specific moment near the end of the songwriter’s life, just months before his death at the age of 48 following a pneumonia diagnosis.—
Kyle McGovern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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This is a man who is the child of two alcoholics.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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His inability to make hard decisions or abstain from becoming a maudlin, clingy drunk had transformed me from his girlfriend and lover into his mother and disciplinarian.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Stephen Geer pleaded guilty Monday to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence and vehicular assault for a drunk-driving crash last November that killed a Golden police officer and injured three other people, according to the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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