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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So your daughters have decided to side with their drunkard of a father and are trying to blackmail you into submission.
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Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
Examples include the height of a flowing river, stock prices, a hospital’s patient count, the movement of gas molecules and even a stumbling drunkard’s swerving path.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
You would now be regarded on the same level as deadbeat drunkards and child molesters.
—James Erwin, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
Its plot concerns a large cast of characters undergoing radical metamorphoses: prerevolutionary drunkards become postrevolutionary zealots, simple peasants become shrewd military commanders, and MEK fighters become the regime’s number one enemy.
—Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
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Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
Examples include the height of a flowing river, stock prices, a hospital’s patient count, the movement of gas molecules and even a stumbling drunkard’s swerving path.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
You would now be regarded on the same level as deadbeat drunkards and child molesters.
—James Erwin, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
Its plot concerns a large cast of characters undergoing radical metamorphoses: prerevolutionary drunkards become postrevolutionary zealots, simple peasants become shrewd military commanders, and MEK fighters become the regime’s number one enemy.
—Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
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“Drunkard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drunkard. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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