inebriety

Example Sentences

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He had drunk a good deal, but any inebriety from which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Gluttony is more common than inebriety and is responsible for more ills.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.

There was, however, too much method in the next proceedings for it to be attributed wholly to emotional inebriety.

From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth

Thus in the allegorical Vishnuite drama called Prabodhacandrodaya and written at Kalanjar near the end of the eleventh century Buddhists and Jains are represented as succumbing to the temptations of inebriety and voluptuousness.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Besides being equal to Mrs. Campbell's best work in the past, it is strikingly original in presenting the ethics of the body as imperiously claiming recognition in the radical cure of inebriety.

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Campbell, Helen