tipsy
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This is a comic epic of bursting balloons and black eyes, tipsy aunts and tottering uncles, an errant mouse and driving snows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
It’s as if he’s saying to us and all the tipsy ladies in the audience: Check this out — LOL, right?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
Yes, Jacklyn’s all smiles and compliments until a tipsy Laurie retires, giving the others some one-on-one time.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025
"She was furious. She saw this upper-class woman wearing a fur coat getting tipsy with her husband. So she threw me out."
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023
Some days, when she walked, she would feel tipsy, swaying side to side, needing to rest against walls as if struck by vertigo.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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