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alcoholic

adjective as in containing alcohol

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Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.

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Eight countries have been added to a UK Foreign Office list warning of the risks of methanol poisoning from counterfeit or tainted alcoholic drinks.

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Then, after she was freed, Antanina herself took over care of two Belarusian teenagers, whose alcoholic mother lost custody.

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In Atlanta, “diners continued to pull back by skipping desserts and alcoholic beverages,” the Federal Reserve said in its latest survey of the economy.

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Ninety minutes later, they were served an alcoholic drink to finish within 10 minutes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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