sozzled

• “I don't know about "sozzled" ... perhaps that's British English.”

  The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day

• “Bunny "sozzled" the basket of clams in the water to wash them, and when”

  Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove

• “As anyone who has been swept out of the racecourse's gates on the tsunami of upbeat, sozzled Scouse humanity that marks the close of Ladies' Day will attest, it makes your average, drink-sodden Cheltenham Festival look like a four-day meeting of the Temperance Society.”

  The Guardian: Raucous Grand National celebration misses only the winner Ballabriggs

• “At Lord's I kept thinking how strange it must feel for Sri Lanka, playing a game that draws empty seats back home, but here in London's Greatest Beer Garden inspires a full house of the often insensible, the beer-goggled, the bladder-swollen, the game's faithful backbone lolling dutifully in their high-priced seats, all doing their bit for English cricket's new economy of the sozzled.”

  The Guardian: Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay

• “Drinking in the sozzled aftermath of the intoxicating wrestle with Ghana, there were reasons to savour the morning after.”

  The Guardian: England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay

• ““I picked up some fresh sausage, Darren!” he calls out to the sozzled but effective Brit.”

  Fictionaut: Filth and Splendor: A Love Story

• “Hitchens was apparently often a bully, empowered by his endless certainties useful for a pundit always on call, his indisputable verbal gifts and booze, and he often hammered out his pieces, as Katha Pollitt in The Nation laments, "when sozzled.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer

• “But if police find themselves dealing with half a dozen sozzled lassies, then they should use “firm enforcement”.”

  Staffs Police Have Some Fun SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “Gone are the days of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton when love was tempestuous, messy, sozzled but you still believed in the passion.”

  The Huffington Post: Sandip Roy: Don't Cry for Them, Rajasthan: Katy Perry and Russell Brand Never Really Loved You

• “It centres on a self-deceiving marriage: a sozzled couple love each other but it would be "boring" to make this plain, and they are driven apart by an earnest ingenue.”

  The Guardian: After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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