barfly

Example Sentences

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Bobby doesn’t mind — handsome, intelligent and possessing a secret stash of dough, he appears to move above the concerns of his barfly cohort.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

They’ve endured agonies he’ll never understand — and a barfly like him can’t deliver a cheers that will set things right.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022

And by the end of the fourth "She-Hulk" episode, "Is This Not Real Magic?" the mononymous sorcerer has an adorable barfly handle: "Wongers."

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2022

He occasionally won meatier parts, such as the Harvard-educated barfly Willie Oban in a 1973 screen version of O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2018

And it should have been obvious to me, maybe not that he was an Executive Special, but that he was certainly no drunken barfly.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam