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

It seemed to her monstrous and indecent that Monsieur Rougon should have a brother whose wife sold chestnuts, and who himself lived in crapulous idleness.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

V Behold her, pranked with spurs for bloody sport, How she acclaims, A crapulous chanticleer, Breach of the hectic dawn of yon New Year.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Rather than such cockney sentimentality as this, as an education for the taste and sympathies, we p. 143prefer the most crapulous group of boors that Teniers ever painted. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan