hard drinking
Example Sentences
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There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012
In the group that surrounded him was our old acquaintance, Judge Edward McGowan—Ned McGowan—jolly, hard drinking, oily, but not as noisy as usual.
From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White
Sixty years had written their story of hard work at sea, and hard drinking on shore, on the veteran's grim and wrinkled face.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
Be it observed also that the hard fighting, hard drinking, boastful hero of Nieblung fame used a "spur hund," just as his representative of Kentucky or Tennessee used a track hound a thousand years later.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt
Their faces were flushed as if by hard drinking, and their pimpled noses resembled huge red barnacles.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
