(n.) One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
Example Sentences:
(1) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(2) Then last week Erdogan defended his anti-alcohol legislation by obliquely calling Ataturk and his closest ally, Ismet Inonu, a couple of "drunkards".
(3) Their politicians dance like drunkards along the cliff's edge of default.
(4) Many of the practices and beliefs of the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Movement were adopted by reformatory homes for "drunkards" that were established in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia in the mid-1800s.
(5) During her trial, which cost £100,000, Sherwood spent 20 hours in the witness box defending herself against accusations of being a liar, a drunkard and a bad mother.
(6) The leader of Karachi’s dominant political party has been accused by a respected former mayor of being an Indian agent and a dictatorial drunkard who has mismanaged the affairs of Pakistan’s biggest city from his base in north London.
(7) Society's reactions towards these perceived "alcoholics" are class specific: the lower classes are identified as "drunkards" and dealt with through public welfare and control, while the middle and upper classes as well as the newly appearing women alcoholics, are perceived as being ill and sent for medical or psychiatric treatment.
(8) He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom.
(9) You can feel her curves beneath you as you move, and if you’re still you can feel her sway and vibrate like a drunkard.
(10) "Mergers of equals tend to be the two drunkards being propped up by the lamp-post.
(11) Received wisdom pours out the usual litany: random mutations, catastrophic mass extinctions and other mega-disasters, super-virulent microbes all ensure that the drunkard's walk is a linear process in comparison to the ceaseless lurching seen in the history of life.
(12) By contrast, North, the priest and “establishment humanitarian” character (tellingly also a “confirmed drunkard”, or by today’s lax standards, a hipster epicure) fails in his pledge to save Kirkland from the lash.
(13) Eschewing the conventional two-handed mode, he instead came out with one fist like a drunkard windmilling at a rival in an alley.
(14) Gambling away his savings, Grant – a "clever bloke" who thinks he can only be happy in English exile – becomes trapped among the kind of chauvinistic, philistine drunkards he affects to despise, yet slowly he begins to emulate them.
(15) The reparative changes in neurons and interneuronal connections revealed suppose possible reversibility of the morphological changes observed in the offspring of drunkards.
(16) Something Chevening has always lacked, as far as I’m aware, is an Isis flag in an upstairs window, a drunkard shouting rape threats on the doorstep and a skinhead breeding pit bulls in the basement.
(17) At around 11 o'clock on a Sunday night just over two weeks ago, Ram Singh, a 33-year-old school bus driver known as a troublesome drunkard, and his younger brother Mukesh headed back down the narrow lanes to the squalid one-bedroom brick home where they had spent the afternoon drinking.
(18) Finally, penalties for drunkards, including loss of salvation, are proportionally more frequent and comprehensive in the New Testament.
(19) A higher level of cells with a changed number of chromosomes in leucocyte blood culture of chronic alcohol users (drunkards) and spermatogency cells of alcoholized rats has been noticed.
(20) As with cinema later, many of these versions were freely, even crazily inventive – an Urdu Hamlet interspersed with songs and a comic subplot where the prince murders a rival for Ophelia's hand; a version of Measure for Measure with Isabella cast as a Muslim avenger, and Angelo as a drunkard.
Toper
Definition:
(n.) One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.