dipsomania

How To Use dipsomania In A Sentence

• You have shown yourself no alcoholic, no dipsomaniac, but merely an habitual drinker, one who has made John Barleycorn's acquaintance through long years of rubbing shoulders with him. Chapter 1
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• The most popular woman in America is the anorexic Keira Knightly (8 shots), followed by the dipsomaniacal Lindsay Lohan (5) and the multi-cultural Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles (4 each). Ed Kosner: Just like US
• I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac. Chapter 2
• Her "dipsomania" took an unaggressive form, as she was by nature gentle and sweet; she simply used to shut herself in and drink until she would cry herself into a timid, suppressed hysteria. The Second Generation
• Like that Oscar statuette you placed on the dashboard during your dipsomaniacal drive through Hollywood in The Star, I'd love to ask just once: "Come on Bette, let's you and me get drunk. Kim Morgan: Happy 100, Bette Davis
• A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving. Mankind in the Making
• Danny was downbeat and self-absorbed, reeling from one personal incident to the next like a ship without a compass, and his friends were a mixed bunch of dipsomaniacs and egotists.
• Because of this, we have the word "dipsomania," which the OED defines as: Everybody's WMAMing for the weekend...
• These characters could inhabit an early Waugh but not a later one, where dipsomania is not a joke but a debilitating disease that wrecks lives.