ADJECTIVE
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given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking
a crapulous old reprobate -
suffering from excessive eating or drinking
a crapulous stomach
crapulent sleep
How To Use crapulous In A Sentence
- Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass. William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality
- The Chinese Pond Heron is a crapulous predator.
- In the morning, feeling dreadfully crapulous, she managed to make herself presentable in time for work. SORT OF RICH
- It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
- I recognized him as one whose fustigation had so revived my crapulous spirits in the morning. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
- a crapulous stomach
- The manband in question, the Overtones, are both dull as dishwater and half as attractive in total as the cleft in Gary Barlow's chin, but they do add a layer of crapulous doowop harmony that really does make everything better. This week's new singles
- a crapulous old reprobate
- And for a very good reason: the genre is crapulous, status-quo-reifying, herd-placating "family fare. Why Juno Is Loathsome
- Joe -- love the word crapulous -- I am going to borrow it the first chance I get. McCain in the Gutter - Swampland - TIME.com