drunkards

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Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, pushed back saying that even early American presidents might have qualified as "habitual drunkards" by the standards of today.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

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 • Jun. 8, 2022

Before 1868, “the room was a court with jurisdiction over drunkards and lunatics,” according to a 1984 account in The New York Times, which cited a city-sponsored exhibit about the history of City Hall.

From New York Times • May 25, 2012

I could not bring you, but I have no problem telling you what I saw—the entire diaspora around me—hustlers, lawyers, Kappas, busters, doctors, barbers, Deltas, drunkards, geeks, and nerds.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates