drunkard

Example Sentences

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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

The same online commentary warned that the A.B.H. “would be a ‘wet’ shelter, meaning druggies and drunkards will be able to come and go as they please.”

From New York Times

In several, his character died as a frustrated lover and a drunkard.

From Seattle Times

Right: “I grew up watching my mum being beaten by my drunkard stepfather every day,” says Mike.

From Washington Post

Thank God for those Dutch paintings showing drunkards falling about in taverns, for Daumier’s twitchy politicians festering in their own corruption and for Hogarth’s visions of witless aristocrats, yawning servants and overturned chairs.

From Washington Post