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crapulous

[krap-yuh-luhs] / ˈkræp jə ləs /


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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

If it were not for this baldness, and a kind of crapulous air I can’t disguise from myself—if it weren’t for this and that and t’other thing—I—I’ve forgot what I was saying.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson

I suppose his distresses and his crapulous habits will not render him difficult on this head.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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

As it passed through he straightened himself and put up his hand in a crapulous salute.

From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair


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