dipsomaniac

Example Sentences

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What’s more, if slowly supping your way into pre-lunchtime oblivion in the company of like-minded individuals, it is considered good manners to regularly check the glasses of your fellow dipsomaniacs and provide refills where required.

From The Guardian

Like Lewis Carroll's Alice, Tintin is the one sane mind in a world of schemers, dipsomaniacs, eccentric geniuses and blithering idiots.

From Time

"To appease divine wrath," they say; but they might ask us—why have we dipsomaniacs and kleptomaniacs and monstrosities in our civilized life?

From Project Gutenberg

And his son was a hunchback and a dipsomaniac.

From Project Gutenberg

In England a spendthrift or dipsomaniac can only be controlled when he has spent all his money.

From Project Gutenberg