bibulous

Example Sentences

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A person described as bibulous has a fondness for what?

From Slate • Dec. 25, 2023

Mr. Humphries created a string of other characters over the years, notably the boorish, bibulous Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

He was born in 1972, and was brought up in a housing project in South London, the youngest of four boys, with a strict English mother and a bibulous Irish Catholic father.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

The first schoolmaster sent to New Netherland arrived in 1633 at the same time as Bogardus, and represented the cause of education even less creditably than did the bibulous domine that of religion.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder