drunkard

Example Sentences

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Among Palestinians, it developed a bad reputation as "a drink for drunkards".

From Reuters

God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.

From Washington Post

In our search for cosmic signals of dark matter, we could be likened to drunkards looking for lost keys beneath lampposts, where the light shines the brightest.

From Scientific American

A cluster of townspeople who might have been written off as bumpkins, drunkards and clowns coalesces into something like a lynch mob.

From New York Times

Yet in “Night World,” Mae Clarke, who plays a dancer with a knack for nursing drunkards back to health, cuts through the hedonism and anarchy with her grounded intelligence and low-key charm.

From New York Times