sozzled

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Blethyn tore into the chance to play an oft-sozzled stage mom to Jane Horrocks 'meek title character; the movie, however, was specifically created to show off Horrocks' jaw-dropping impersonations of legendary Hollywood singers (Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland), and Blethyn's over-the-top scenery chewing may have turned off voters besides.

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  • She had been dreading the drive, fearing the mindless recitations and the inevitable stink of the wine-sozzled unwashed, but he smelled only of warm earth, and his silence was somehow restful. —  To Play the Fool
  • His sozzled thoughts drifted like a flock of crewless blimps. —  VQR
  • The 23-year-old stood at the dais tossing down glass after glass of champagne, getting visibly sozzled in the process. —  Agent Bedhead
  • Nthati Moshesh is sensational in the roles of the boy messenger and Winnie, but her career tour de force is Lady Manta, the sozzled, power-hungry keeper of the muti. —  Tonight
  • I start to talk to two sun-dried women in their sixties who have been getting gently sozzled since midday. —  doggdot.us
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  1. From sozzle, to splash, loll about, be lazy, from earlier sossle, probably from soss, to splash in mud, fall heavily, of imitative origin.
 

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