wine-bibber

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In Matthew, Jesus is depicted as a glutton and a wine-bibber.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar

Some of them said He was a glutton and a wine-bibber, others that He had a devil, others, again, that He was the friend of publicans and sinners.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

Remember your Lord, he was familiar with publicans and sinners to a proverb; "Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners;" Matt. xi.

From The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by Bunyan, John

No wonder then that his sociable friend on his right, seeing how his guest held his tankard, and refused every dish which he offered him, took him for an incorrigible wine-bibber.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

She had never represented any of her saints as a wine-bibber, a gross beef-eater, or a narrow-headed, crafty, cringing creature.

From Half a Century by Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon