drunkards
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Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, pushed back saying that even early American presidents might have qualified as "habitual drunkards" by the standards of today.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
In our search for cosmic signals of dark matter, we could be likened to drunkards looking for lost keys beneath lampposts, where the light shines the brightest.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2022
Hence, it was prohibited during the Soviet era to photograph religious ceremonies, nudes, even “scruffy backyards and scrap-heaps, drunkards and beggars, people queuing for rarely sold products and squalid everyday life in general.”
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2013
“Mostly just the hearts of those who are trying to realize their Personal Legends. But they do help children, drunkards, and the elderly, too.”
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
