crapulous

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In those crapulous times, 50 years ago, he was no nicer than others, and far more energetic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fat, untidy and crapulous, �vejk is a natural disaster as a soldier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among these was the Charivari, which incontinently laughed at the whole system of the establishment, from the crapulous, corpulent, and Voltairien Etienne, down to the lowest printer's devil.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

I recognized him as one whose fustigation had so revived my crapulous spirits in the morning.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various

Rather than such cockney sentimentality as this, as an education for the taste and sympathies, we p. 143prefer the most crapulous group of boors that Teniers ever painted. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan