crapulous
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In those crapulous times, 50 years ago, he was no nicer than others, and far more energetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1900, directed against the crapulous exoticism of contemporary literature, it was an antidote, childhood was being used as a medicine against an assumed attack of second childhood.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
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 Carolyn Wells
With what he termed "the crapulous years," he had divested himself of his former associates and habits.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
This wretched monk, he concluded, must have possessed a damnably intimate knowledge of Nepenthean conditions, and a cantankerous and crapulous turn of mind, into the bargain.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
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