hard drinker
Example Sentences
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However, Little-Pengelly said she did not see anything that made her think Donaldson was a hard drinker.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Though Mickey Mantle carried the public image of a hard drinker, Danny Mantle argues that perception is overblown.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2016
He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a time when men thought that the reckless devil-may-care man made the finest soldier; that the hard drinker, the hard swearer, the riotous liver came out best in a fight.
From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by Sellers, William Edward
He could not bear much wine; and none but a hard drinker had any chance of success in Westphalian society.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
