hard drinker
Example Sentences
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Though Mickey Mantle carried the public image of a hard drinker, Danny Mantle argues that perception is overblown.
From Washington Times • Jun. 18, 2016
He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
I then observed that I was not a hard drinker, but being a total stranger and liable to sudden sickness, I asked what I would do under such circumstances.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
Which is the true Poe, the hard drinker or the hard worker?
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
He could not bear much wine; and none but a hard drinker had any chance of success in Westphalian society.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
