hard drinker
Example Sentences
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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
That censor and reprover of others, Cato, was reproached that he was a hard drinker: "Narratur et prisci Catonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de
He reads none, converses none, is neither a glutton nor a hard drinker; he sports few ornaments, and wears plain clothing.
From Gamblers and Gambling by Beecher, Henry Ward
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
