crapulous

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Time has since taught the world that Venice continued this idle deception for ages after both reason and modesty should have dictated its discontinuance; but, at the period of which we write, that ambitious, crapulous, and factitious state was rather beginning to feel the symptomatic evidence of its fading circumstances, than to be fully conscious of the swift progress of a downward course.

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  1. Drunken; given up to excess in drinking; characterized by intemperance. [Rare.] I suppose his distresses and his crapulous habits will not render him difficult on this head. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 434. Rather than such cockney sentimentality as this, as an education for the taste and sympathies, we prefer the most crapulous group of boors that Teniers ever painted. George Eliot, Essays, p. 142.

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  • I would love to know the identity of the "crapulous professors." —  11D
  • He is not the hard-bitten pirate of story--but a senile, crapulous, lachrymose imbecile; an object of derision. —  Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
  • Time has since taught the world that Venice continued this idle deception for ages after both reason and modesty should have dictated its discontinuance; but, at the period of which we write, that ambitious, crapulous, and factitious state was rather beginning to feel the symptomatic evidence of its fading circumstances, than to be fully conscious of the swift progress of a downward course. —  The Bravo
  • And then I scribble things like this Gods in the Gutter I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat And one was eaten up with vice and verminous at that The first he spoke of secret sins, and gems and perfumes rare And velvet cats and courtesans voluptuously fair Who is the Sybarite?" —  Ballads of a Bohemian
  • His crapulous invective only has the power to stigmatize his allies now. —  Proletariat Blog
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  1. = French crapuleux, from Late Latin crapulosus, drunken, from Latin crapula, drunkenness: see crapula.
 

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