crapulous
Example Sentences
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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
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 Nathan Sheppard
As it passed through he straightened himself and put up his hand in a crapulous salute.
From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
In the article of women, nevertheless, he is become more correct, since his connection with Mrs. Fitzherbert, who is an honest and worthy woman: he is even less crapulous than he was.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
