dipsomaniacs

They are sick and rife with disease, eating too much, inveterate dipsomaniacs!

Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope 2010

Most of his adult life was spent as a patient in various expensive rest homes for dipsomaniacs and victims of nervous collapse.

Five Best 2007

An insoluble problem that goes much deeper than the dipsomaniacs and Nathan vendors of America.

Freakonomics Quorum: The Economics of Street Charity - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Although he was frequently beseeched to reveal his secret recipes for the sake of dipsomaniacs who couldn't afford his treatment, he refused.

If Dr. Keeley Could See You Now, 2007

These mansions were all but deserted now—or served no other purpose than to shelter dipsomaniacs, my mother claimed.

Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

Nervous children are more highly suggestible than others, and if they have not been taught to control their appetites and desires, their wants and passions, they are going to form an especially susceptible class of society from which may be recruited high-class criminals, dipsomaniacs, and other unfortunates.

The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

A serious book about artists regarded as artists is unreadable; and a book about artists regarded as lovers, husbands, dipsomaniacs, heroes, and the like is really not worth writing again.

Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

A serious book about artists regarded as artists is unreadable; and a book about artists regarded as lovers, husbands, dipsomaniacs, heroes, and the like is really not worth writing again.

Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

It is precisely as if the community provided free champagne for dipsomaniacs, or hired lecturers to convert the army to the doctrines of the Bolsheviki.

Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

Then the Fabians, the Social Democrats, the Clarionettes, the Syndicalists, the Extremists, the Arbitrators, and the Union leaders return to Blackheath and Sidcup and Bedford Park, crying that it is useless to attempt to help the poor; they won't be helped: they are hopeless dipsomaniacs.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915