dipsomaniacal

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Nearly thirty-five, Adele was ready to toss in the taps, and did so by marrying the dipsomaniacal Charlie Cavendish.

View all »
Examples

  • She had a full-time gig at St. John's Hospital and wet-nursed a dipsomaniacal actress named ZaSu Pitts on the side. —  My Dark Places
  • Nearly thirty-five, Adele was ready to toss in the taps, and did so by marrying the dipsomaniacal Charlie Cavendish. —  AmericanHeritage.com
  • Today, folks will wax dipsomaniacal in search of their "Irish" alky within. —  The Latest on Air America
  • Beginning with a gorgeous title sequence during which we watch History Professor George (Burton) and his saucy and sauced wife Martha (Taylor) walking back from a function drunk and cackling, the movie immediately places us in their dark, disconsolate universe -- one of shattered hopes, nihilism, and dipsomaniacal game playing. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • "Why not two teaspoonfuls every hour?" he suggested, with an eagerness almost dipsomaniacal. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
 

Tags

dipsomaniacal hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Dipsomaniacal has been looked up 55 times, favorited 0 times, listed twice, and commented on 0 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recent Lookups

skeptically · non-linear · half-stunned · persecution · browse

Recent Favorites

TelePalmter · Espoo · stick-to-it-iveness · supine · doxastic

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious