1
as in excessiveness
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
a short, unhappy life characterized chiefly by insobriety
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as in alcoholism
habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants
her once-promising singing career was undermined by insobriety and emotional instability
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Recent Examples of insobriety
Morel-Cruz stayed at the scene, where he was arrested after officers determined his insobriety with field tests.
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Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2020
Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insobriety
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Workplace mental health support has traveled a long arc since the 1930s, when early employee assistance programs (EAPs) emerged—primarily to address occupational alcoholism and acute crises.—
Stephen Sokoler,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Now a widower struggling through alcoholism and grief, the golfer returns to the game to fund his daughter Vienna's (Sandler's real-life daughter Sunny Sandler) overseas ballet education.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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High rollers are trading the once-glamorous epicenters of excess for local sports bars, crowd-roaring stadiums, grocery lines and even their couches at home—everywhere can be a roulette table when the casino is in your pocket.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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Democrats stand for nothing if not redistribution, regulation of market excesses, equal opportunity and support for the less fortunate.—
Clive Crook,
Twin Cities,
21 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Insobriety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insobriety. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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