hard drinker
Example Sentences
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However, Little-Pengelly said she did not see anything that made her think Donaldson was a hard drinker.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
The chaplain, we call him Figg—Jonathan Figg's his name; the Reverend Jonathan Figg, B.A., of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; a good fellow and a moderately hard drinker.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Which is the true Poe, the hard drinker or the hard worker?
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
