Synonyms for drunken

Grammar : Adj

Spell : druhng-kuhn

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrʌŋ kən

Définition of drunken

Origin : full form of the past participle of drunk. Meaning "inebriated" was in Old English druncena; adjectival meaning "habitually intoxicated" is from 1540s. Related: Drunkenly.

adj drunk

Example sentences :

But I got him too straight—let a drunken man alone for telling the truth when he's got it in him.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

He's got a drunken father,—one of the meanest kind of drunkards.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

"Often enough," he said fiercely, and he thought of his drunken father.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

"Keep your tongue still, or it will be the worse for you," shouted the most drunken of the archers.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the first step Mortimer staggered and swayed like a drunken man.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

In dashed the drunken retainer, and Gulielma was once more in peril.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

He could have her for the asking, at this very hour, in her drunken husband's bed.
Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler

It is unjust, because it punishes the sober man for the vice of the drunken man.
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

If a girl mends her clothes on her back, she risks having a drunken husband.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

Yesterday we saw for the first time in Freeland a drunken man!
Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

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