dipsomaniac


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Synonyms for dipsomaniac

a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

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The percentage of those students who said that Russians were "drunkards" or "dipsomaniac" dramatically increased from 3% (2007) to 11.7% (2012).
In 1901, the Massachusetts legislature amended the commitment laws to commit only male dipsomaniacs to MHDI--females would be committed to lunatic hospitals.
258), and how Shaw's father was not the hopeless dipsomaniac of his son's reminiscences.
Since he is "practically a dipsomaniac" (Trilogy 228), Apthorpe drinks himself into a coma and dies.
In her last outing, Grace was saddled with a psychotic bulldog, in her new adventure, it is a dipsomaniac parrot called Tallulah.
(22) They were left in the possession of George Cooper, a dipsomaniac friend of Foster's who was also a songwriter, when Foster died; subsequently they were in the possession of a niece of Cooper's who lived in Philadelphia, and whose books and papers I bought at storage sale auction.
"A major downfall is with the performance of Carol Harrison, who plays the slightly dipsomaniac Lynne," wrote the critic.
And he enjoyed being out here for the very simple reason that his wife was a dipsomaniac. And also he was a very, very shy man.
This is the constraining cosmos such as we find in Dante's Commedia, in the bleak, postlapsarian books of Milton's Paradise Lost and post-Restoration prose tracts, in the twisted consciousness of Dostoevsky's underground man, in the fatal Ferris wheel of events that ensnare Lowry's doomed, dipsomaniac consul, and, of course, in Haftling 174517's Auschwitz (Levi 8).
And far from Moscow's spy services disintegrating - like everything else in President Yeltsin's dipsomaniac kingdom - it has never been more active.
More or less in full view of Barnes, Lady Ashley beds other "chaps"--the teenager, a dipsomaniac she is on the verge of marrying, a wealthy man of the world from Greece--without arousing in Barnes anything like his malignant hatred of Cohn.
Lionel Johnson, a dipsomaniac, 'the jug of Glengarry whisky between two open books: Les Fleurs du Mal and Leaves of Grass', drinking two pints of it every twenty-four hours, dead at thirty-five.
In the face of this tragedy, Bishop's classic dipsomaniac pattern of alcoholism became more and more a pattern of continuous and excessive drinking.