Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- n. Excessive indulgence; intemperance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Drunkenness; a surfeit, or the sickness following drunkenness.
Wiktionary
- n. sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking
- n. intemperance; debauchery; excessive indulgence
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Etymologies
- From crapulent, sick from gluttony, from Late Latin crāpulentus, very drunk, from Latin crāpula, intoxication, from Greek kraipalē.
Examples
“Jonathan Karl is back today, as we wait for Christiane Amanpour to join us on Sunday and either get inexorably sucked into its crapulence and end up looking like the "Nightly ... at the Bellagio" version of her former self, or make my Sunday mornings a much better place.”
“Suddenly, he is Ground Zero for so much media crapulence.”
The Huffington Post: Rahm Emanuel And David Axelrod Have Become The Sum Of All Media Crapulence
“Instead, her failures are Bush-like in their breath-taking crapulence.”
“Got to his shop and check out the SIDE view of this crapulence!”
“The fact that most Americans still think it's a toss-up shows the crapulence of your media.”
Obama Camp: McCain Running "A Campaign Not Worthy Of The Office He's Seeking"
“I don't know whether those who struggle endlessly against life's rough tides are more "spiritual" than the ones who wallow and finally drown in their own reeking crapulence.”
“Ergo, you continue to drift in the Sea of Pointlessness, a basin filled with the sloshing of your own crapulence.”
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“Terrell Owens takes his unique brand of team-destroying crapulence to the Buffalo Bills.”
“Underworld's new album, Oblivion With Bells, takes a steep nosedive into crapulence around the halfway point, so perhaps it's best to employ a bit of judicious, iPod-era editing on approach to safeguard the aging techno duo's heretofore untarnished reputation.”
“TheStar. com | entertainment | DOWNLOAD SINGLE OF THE WEEK: Underworld's new album, Oblivion With Bells, takes a steep nosedive into crapulence around the halfway point, so perhaps it's best to employ a bit of judicious, iPod-era editing on approach to safeguard the aging techno duo's heretofore untarnished reputation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crapulence’.
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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lou2050's list
chortle, crapulence, tomfoolery, salacious, cacophony, smock, gravitas, facetious, gargantuan, ubiquitous, preposterous
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words-for-apocalipstick
all your words are belong to me.
sybaritic, cacography, scatterbrain, extravaganza, fenestra, kaleidophone, machination, mudpuppy, saturnalia, Bacchanalia, ersatz, fictile and 57 more...
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bianca's list of non-euphonious words
crepuscular, crapulence, fricative, feculant, cacophony, sarcophagus, affricate, dischordant, fricasse, discalced, frumpy, skeletal and 1 more...
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Dirty Words?
flange, shunt, dictum, angina, cunctator, mastication, spelunker, shiitake, rimshot, arsole, forebulge, fecund and 32 more...
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Words That Sound Naughty, but Aint
I'm quite sure there already must be a list for this somewhere. But I want.
coccyx, cumquat, bangkok, ramjet, titmouse, seersucker, woodpecker, hormone, phuket, cockade, dicker, country and 13 more...
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Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 43 more...
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Excess
Excess
licentiousness, crapulence, vomit, mausoleum, fit to kill, libation, decadent, superfluous, louche
jacqualine This is actually a word? What a magical intersection of entertainment and reality! Aug 24, 2011
arby Me too, and I just about died laughing when I heard it. Prime Simpsons, that. Jul 2, 2008
seanahan Mr. Burns "wallowing in my own crapulence" is the first time I'd ever heard this word. Feb 20, 2007