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

Fat, untidy and crapulous, �vejk is a natural disaster as a soldier.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Wells, Carolyn

The number of prisoners at that time confined in this jail reduced itself to seven, to wit: four forgers, two lunatics, and a crapulous old gentleman.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

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 Douglas, Norman