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in one's cups
adjective as in bombed
adjective as in boozed
adjective as in boozy
adjective as in crapulent
adjective as in crapulous
adjective as in crocked
adjective as in looped
Strong matches
adjective as in pickled
Strong matches
adjective as in potted
Strong matches
adjective as in sloshed
Strong matches
adjective as in stewed
Strong matches
adjective as in stinko
Weak matches
- bashed
- befuddled
- besotted
- boozed up
- buzzed
- crapulent
- crapulous
- crocked
- drunk as a skunk
- drunken
- feeling no pain
- flushed
- flying
- fuddled
- glazed
- groggy
- half-seas over
- high
- high as a kite
- inebriate
- inebriated
- intoxicated
- juiced
- laced
- liquored up
- lit
- muddled
- plastered
- potted
- seeing double
- sloshed
- sodden
- stewed
- stoned
- tanked
- three sheets to the wind
- tight
- tipsy
- totaled
- under the influence
- under-the-table
- wasted
Example Sentences
It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.
The more one drinks, the more one talks, unless one happens to be melancholy in one's cups, and my grisette was not so constituted.
After drinking, we will chirp a little as is our wont; 'tis not amiss to prate in one's cups' 'So be it,' quoth I; 'we are the very pink and perfection of the true Attic' 'Done with you!' says Callicles, 'frequent quizzings are a whetstone of conversation' 'For my part,' cries Eudemus, '—it grows chill—I like my liquor stronger, and more of it; I am deathly cold; if I could get some warmth into me, I had rather listen to these light- fingered gentry of flute and lyre.'
After all it was not his fault that I had taken too much of his wine; but a far worse offence was to be sulky in one s cups.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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