inebriation

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While that example is more about disguise than inebriation, the lampshade on the head had become a drunk gag by 1928, when the Since then, the lampshade on the head has come to symbolize the obnoxious drunk trying to be funny-and failing.

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  1. The act of inebriating, or the state of being inebriated; drunkenness; hence, extravagant exhilaration of any kind; mental or moral intoxication. Reason and philosophy … did not preserve him [Napoleon] from the inebriation of prosperity, or restrain him from indecent querulousness in adversity. Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. “Thou art an homunculus, Abel,” responded Master Elliman, waving to and fro betwixt inebriation and an attempt to be merry. S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 6.

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  • Deviation from samples submitted are significant but may be attributable to inebriation, drug use, emotional disturbance or unsteadiness of writing surface Why didn't Philip say anything about it Maybe he didn't see it. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • His typical protagonists were conventional folks whose dull lives were transformed by supernatural intervention into a riot of cheerful inebriation, discreet (offstage) sex, and the confounding of cops and judges, with dialogue that wandered away whenever a point threatened to come into sight Smith's only children's novel, Lazy Bear Lane , hews in part to the pattern, but has to substitute food for the adult pleasures of gin and canoodling. —  FSF - May2006
  • Maybe this was poetic justice for my own faux-inebriation; if so, I was being repaid a thousandfold. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • A second moment had occurred at the giving-away of the bride: The exotic Professor Rais, looking tall and rather elegant in his tailored tux and with swept-back, shoulder-length graying hair, had stumbled slightly on the way to the lake's edge, betraying his somewhat advanced stage of inebriation, and managed to step on the bride's hem. —  EQMM,March-April2008
  • I had now realized Famia floated in a state of incurable inebriation, never totally sobering up. —  Two For The Lions
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  1. = Old French inebriacion, inebriacion = Italian inebriazione, from Late Latin inebriatio(n-), drunkenness, from Latin inebriare, past participle inebriatus, make drunk: see inebriate.
 

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