tipsy
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This is a comic epic of bursting balloons and black eyes, tipsy aunts and tottering uncles, an errant mouse and driving snows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
It’s as if he’s saying to us and all the tipsy ladies in the audience: Check this out — LOL, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
And out of Erika Girardi’s tipsy mouth poured this gem at dinner: “Merce is in the purse.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
"She was furious. She saw this upper-class woman wearing a fur coat getting tipsy with her husband. So she threw me out."
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
We stepped aside, amazed, as she bowed graciously from side to side like a tipsy fat lady in a circus parade, the dipper like a gravy spoon in her enormous hand.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The servants are growing tipsier downstairs, but the more afraid of the chief functionary every time he appears, frozen into sobriety by his glance.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay
Written in "implacable" 14-hour stretches during a four-month "retirement in the mountains of New Hampshire," Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces is the year's tipsiest first novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
It suddenly occurred to him, in one of those lucid moments which the tipsiest man will occasionally have, that the cemetery of Kirkcaldy formed a short cut to his house.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
Beneath a most capricious sky lives the least capricious people in the world, and yet this orderly and methodical nation possesses the tipsiest, most disordered architecture that eye can see.
From Holland, v. 1 (of 2) by Helen Zimmern
The tipsiest of his fellows slunk away from his side.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
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