crapulous

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There, under the impenetrable alias of the number of his bed, the crapulous being lay for some more days unconscious of all things, and of one thing in particular: that the police were after him.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat; And one was eaten up with vice and verminous at that.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

The number of prisoners at that time confined in this jail reduced itself to seven, to wit: four forgers, two lunatics, and a crapulous old gentleman.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William