insobriety
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Morland suspended for a time his habit of insobriety, discarded the social comrades of his laxer hours, and imagined himself reformed.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner
The shadow of insobriety and incontinence doesn't touch the characters who move across these pages, and yet the level of the life is pictured as debased, and habits as hideous.
From The Conquest of Fear by Basil King
This makes me think that we ought to be grateful to have so glaring an example of insobriety before our eyes.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
Ye seek it as if it were your portion and inheritance, surely this is insobriety.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
On this subject the writer reproduces his opinion as expressed in ‘Oars and Sculls’ in 1873:— The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
