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tipsy

[tip-see] / ˈtɪp si /


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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

The veteran wine taster managed to avoid feeling tipsy by only drinking small sips or sometimes not swallowing the wine at all.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2024

"This is not parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin's boxed wine loving mother saying I'm gonna get tipsy & throw my bingo cards at you! NOT A PARODY."

From Salon Nov. 7, 2022

Lady Constance flew to her feet and chasséd giddily around the room like a tipsy ballerina.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

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

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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