- a variation of inebriated.
inebriate
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United Architects entered a widely seen proposal in the competition, an ensemble of five slightly inebriate towers.
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What to drink that won't inebriate Put on weight or contain cyclamate.
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Testimonials to the cup that cheers but does not inebriate have been culled from Thackeray, Athaeneus, Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch.
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She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.
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It was a bright spring morning, one of those days which inebriate one.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant
And as a pair, they can be as quick, acerbic and caustically funny as the inebriates in the classic English movie “Withnail and I,” which is saying a lot.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2015
In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say.
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Snug as a bug, the cup he waits That cheers but not inebriates, She offers him a truly ducal tea, Whipped up, she says, with no diffewclty.
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The disorderly nobles were reduced to the ranks or sent away to institutions for inebriates, and people began to permit their daughters to go about the place unarmed.
From Comic History of England by Bill Nye
Indeed, it looked very like a private lunatic asylum or home for inebriates, with its lofty walls studded with broken glass, and its solid gate crowned with iron spikes.
From The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy
“We all walked with her. She was perfectly OK. Not inebriated at all,” Merksamer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
He said when Depp was inebriated, he would also “insult his fans” and call them “remoras,” also known as suckerfish.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
Alternatively, a big dollop of very white, very thick cream is a fitting partner, making your patiently inebriated and majestic pears even more alluring.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2018
In developing this version, Ayer and Leto settled on someone who is a businessman at his core - inebriated with power and the absolute authority of his own instinct.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2016
What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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I was overcome by exhilarating, almost inebriating, episodes of gratitude overload brought on by an appreciation of small pleasures.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Museums and thousands of cool regional events often need volunteers, and the perks can be inebriating.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2011
They fear a new age of philistinism, a moment when the nation finally gives up on serious culture and focuses instead on making money and inebriating itself on talent contests and celebrity chat shows.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2011
The odors of peanuts, mustard and beer waft over the emerald green grass, and in the inebriating sunshine, laughter and catcalls issue from the bleachers.
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There was something inebriating in the suppleness of this feat.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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