Crapulous

//ˈkɹæpjʊləs// adj

adj ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterized by excessive eating or drinking.

    "Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills."

  2. 2
    Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking.
  3. 3
    Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating.

    "By the time Swelter's monologue was dragging to its crapulous close, Mr. Flay was pacing onwards […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking wordnet
  2. 2
    suffering from excessive eating or drinking wordnet

Synonyms

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crapulenta sheet in the winda sheet in the wind's eyeaddledadrian quistadrip

Antonyms

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sober

Example

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"Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills."

Etymology

From late Middle English crapulous, from Latin crapulosus (“drunken”), from crapula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”). Compare French crapuleux.

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