crapulous

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Fat, untidy and crapulous, �vejk is a natural disaster as a soldier.

From Time Magazine Archive

In those crapulous times, 50 years ago, he was no nicer than others, and far more energetic.

From Time Magazine Archive

There, under the impenetrable alias of the number of his bed, the crapulous being lay for some more days unconscious of all things, and of one thing in particular: that the police were after him.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Rather than such cockney sentimentality as this as an education for the taste and sympathies, we prefer the most crapulous group of boors that Teniers ever painted.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

The gentleman in question, a battered and crapulous cab-tout, presented himself for inspection, and one of the policemen offered to accompany him and impress the reported keeper with the urgency of the situation.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton