excessiveness

Example Sentences

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Sue Gray's report highlighted widespread Covid rule-breaking and excessive drinking in lockdown.

From BBC • May 27, 2022

She found that “failures of leadership and judgment” allowed events to occur that “should not have been allowed to take place” and described a Downing Street operation marked by excessive drinking and dysfunctional dynamics.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Her suggestion that college students avoid excessive drinking, he said, is good advice, and he intends to give it to his own children.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2019

When Whitehouse pursued the “Ralph Club” question further, Kavanaugh cut off any discussion of his possible excessive drinking with a recitation of his résumé.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2018

In 1676, while Nathaniel Bacon held sway in the colony, efforts were made to suppress many long-standing abuses, among them, excessive drinking encouraged by the many taverns and ordinaries in existence.

From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Jester, Annie Lash