How To Use Drunkenness In A Sentence

Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work. The Bread-winners A Social Study
He initially admitted having had three pints of beer but then blamed his drunkenness on the cake. The Sun
How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.

Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Contrary to popular myth , the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.
Perhaps it was her upbringing in the slums of Dundee, where squalor and drunkenness were a sad part of daily life, that made her more able to cope.
But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity. Symposium
All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
Drunkenness in its first degree presents you with a miniature picture of the symptoms of the more advanced stages of ebriose poisoning.
I saw nothing of the man but his posture of loose-limbed, helpless drunkenness and the ill-assorted covering of filthy clothing that concealed it.
Besides, there's various degrees of drunkenness, the term bein 'relative. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country
In Greek this sound happens to mean "not intoxicated"; hence, without more ado, the ancients declared that the amethyst was a preventive of, and a cure for, drunkenness. More Science From an Easy Chair
Rather than leaning on his appealingly gruff Neil Diamond pipes to articulate personal stories of drunkenness and hardscrabble redemption, Bachmann takes a more imaginative approach here.
It is a strange factor of this kind of euphorically dull drunkenness ( 'Oh go on then, sod it, why not? Gridlock
They were paid little by the state and acquired a reputation for charging extortionate fees and for drunkenness.
Salinger concludes that this was likely because “magistrates did not place drunkenness high on their list of offenses warranting prosecution.” A Renegade History of the United States
Drunkenness at work was sufficient grounds for instant dismissal.
Catullus brings forth the frenzied, almost feral, aspects of Bacchus's followers driven mad with drunkenness and hedonism, whereas Ovid concentrates on the romantic or emotional experience of Bacchus and Ariadne's encounter.
Nature pleaseth, and like a kind mother giveth us over unto satietie, if not unto wearisomnesse, unlesse we will peradventure say that the rule and bridle, which stayeth the drunkard before drunkennesse, the glutton before surfetting, and the letcher before the losing of his haire, be the enemies of our pleasures. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
On the present occasion I was delighted to find that, although people all "liquored" freely, there was scarcely any drunkenness; at all events, they had their little bit of fun, such as we see at fairs at home. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
His lapse into drunkenness followed a long run of bad luck.
This herbal remedy appears to retard drunkenness when taken before drinking and negate hangovers when taken after.
A look of repulsion for the sickening display of uncontrolled emotion and loud drunkenness was plastered on his clean-shaven face.
She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
Be careful, or your spirits will be bogged down with dissipation, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that Day will pounce on you like a trap.
The real case against drunkenness is not that it calls up the beast, but that it calls up the Devil. Food and Drink
Among many other evill conditions, very frequent and familiar in her husband Tofano; he tooke a great delight in drinking, which not only he held to be a commendable quality, but was alwaies so often solicited thereto: that Cheta her selfe began to like and allow it in him, feeding his humor so effectually, with quaffing and carowsing, that (at any time when she listed) she could make him bowsie beyonde all measure: and leaving him sleeping in this drunkennesse, would alwayes get her selfe to bed. The Decameron
Contrary to popular myth , the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.
The besetting sin of 18th-century urban Britain was drunkenness.
She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
The anger and drunkenness that had clouded his face cleared and he looked at me mortified.
Wine will not help; this is New York, where daytime drunkenness is frowned upon.
He was at that point of drunkenness where, acutely conscious of it, he made an effort to hide it.
The next day Dale posted a blog defending his use of the word "slapper" and explained how, as a non-drinker, he is horrified by public drunkenness. The Guardian World News
The Romans believed the amethyst prevented drunkenness and used to drink out of goblets studded with these purple gems.
His poor sister, shamed by her brother's drunkenness had moved far and away where she oughtn't to have news of Masdy's daily inebriated activities. Masdy's Silver
I refer downright beastly gluttons and drunkards to this; but indulgence short, _far short_, of this gross and really nasty drunkenness and gluttony is to be deprecated, and that, too, with the more earnestness because it is too often looked upon as being no crime at all, and as having nothing blameable in it; nay, there are many persons who _pride_ themselves on their refined taste in matters connected with eating and drinking: so far from being ashamed of employing their thoughts on the subject, it is their boast that they do it. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
The goddess Hathor was the protectress of an important wine-producing area, and myths linked her to wine and drunkenness.
Drinking tends to take place outside the family unit and drunkenness in pubs is often tolerated, even expected.
She yelled at him about his constant drunkenness.
The only case before us to-day is one of house-breaking, drunkenness from excessive use of poteen, which is an illegal drink, and resisting arrest by the police. Duty, and other Irish Comedies
Add to this a dirty, draggle-tailed chintz; long, matted hair, wandering into her eyes, and over her lean shoulders, which were once so snowy, and you have the picture of drunkenness and Mrs. Simon Gambouge. The Paris Sketch Book
Presently, as his drunkenness fled, came dolour in its stead. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Rice was the staple food, and Rice beer was a popular drink on festive occasions, when a little drunkenness was socially acceptable.
Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy. Chapter 26
She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
They establish these statutes as establishing a sharp cleavage between drunkenness and nondrunkenness.
He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow, the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live.
Contrary to popular myth , the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.
It did not conduce to my equanimity to see my name catalogued with persons arrested for sneak thievery, pocket-picking, drunkenness, brawling, and mayhem. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice
This era of social reorganization and professionalization also brought the first widespread attempt to medicalize drunkenness.
Perion's trial, condemnation, and so on, had consumed the better part of an hour, on account of the drunkenness of one of the Inquisitors, who had vexatiously impeded these formalities by singing love-songs; but in the end it had been salutarily arranged that the Comte de la Forêt be torn apart by four horses upon the St. Richard's day ensuing. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
Noise, drunkenness, bad manners, rude and discourteous conduct and reckless driving will all raise their ugly heads, whatever we do.
Yea, it so stupefies and besots the soul, that a man who is far gone in drunkenness is hardly ever recovered to God. The Riches of Bunyan
They want to stamp out the growing trend of so-called "poly-drug use", the mixing of stimulant-laden energy drinks with spirits, which can multiply the effects of drunkenness. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
He became notorious in England for drunkenness, blasphemy, and lechery, and for having abandoned his wife and child.
In the bright water into which he stared, the pictures changed and were repeated: the baresark rage of Goddedaal; the blood-red light of the sunset into which they had run forth; the face of the babbling Chinaman as they cast him over; the face of the captain, seen a moment since, as he awoke from drunkenness into remorse. The Wrecker
Public drunkenness, resisting arrest , and battery are misdemeanors.
I drift with the crowd out of the square into a tangle of narrow streets, where the public-houses are a-roar with drunkenness, men, women, and children mixed together in colossal debauch. CORONATION DAY
He was temperate in eating and drinking, abominated drunkenness, and kept in good health despite every exposure and hardship. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
I remembered the heat like a dream, a blur of drunkenness and hangovers and sweat-tangled sheets.
This is why he will come to rule NewMediaLand and I will sink further into drunkenness and iniquity.
Though drawing the story in bold strokes and relying on stock characters, Austen's treatment of drunkenness nevertheless remains subtle insofar as she, like medical writers, refuses the interpretation that drunkenness is merely a mark of license. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
St. Paul certainly understands this: in Galatians 5.21, after he's finished a standard vice list including such things as quarrels, envy, and drunkenness, he tells his Christian audience, "I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God" (NRSV). Archive 2007-09-01
The swinish drunkenness in which I had lived for months (this was accompanied by the sense of degradation and the old feeling of conviction of sin) was the last and best, and I could see for myself what it was worth. Chapter 12
Contrary to popular myth , the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.
He also meditates on the long menu of Irish terms for drunkenness: "spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Search of the Classic Irish Pub
He considered that some cases manifested a particular psychopathology, sometimes due to drunkenness or epilepsy, but that in a few instances it was an actual perversion brought about by a morbid disposition.
The dismal and destructive ecstasy of drugs, of hammering rhythms, noise, and drunkenness is confronted with a bright ecstasy of light, of joyful encounter in Atheism
Drunkenness besots the understanding, ruins the constitution, and leaves those addicted to it in the last stages of life, in want and misery, equally destitute of all necessaries, and incapable to procure them. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
Noise, drunkenness, bad manners, rude and discourteous conduct and reckless driving will all raise their ugly heads, whatever we do.
Itinerant labourers were prone to vary long periods of hard work by short bouts of tremendous drunkenness.
If wine be often taken, anon by drunkenness it quencheth the sight of reason, and comforteth beastly madness, and so the body abideth as it were a ship in the sea without stern and without lodesman, and as chivalry without prince or duke. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
Though temperance advocates acknowledged that either male or female drinking destroyed domestic happiness, they often reserved their harshest opprobrium for women's drunkenness.
Drunkenness, especially during holiday periods, disfigured the town and aroused the ire of the local opinion formers.
Now, drunkenness is not the great vice, as far as I can learn. The Canadian Army As I Saw It
It seemed as though some resolution were ripening within him, which he was himself ashamed of, but which he was gradually getting used to; one single thought kept obstinately and undeviatingly moving up closer and closer, one single image stood out more and more distinctly, and under the burning weight of heavy drunkenness the angry irritation was replaced by a feeling of ferocity in his heart, and a vindictive smile appeared on his lips. A Sportsman's Sketches
For I do not understand how drunkenness or cruelty (that is, revenge which does not look to some future good) can conduce to peace, or the preservation of anyone.
Physical, verbal, emotional abuse, infidelity, drunkenness, constant bickering, blowout arguments and shouting matches, financial trouble, stress so bad it put her in the hospital.
In the one all the horror of disgusting and blood-embrued barbarism, the drunkenness of carnage, the disinterested taste, if I may say so, for destruction and death; in the other a profound sense of justice, a great height of personal pride it is true, but also a great capacity for devotion, an exquisite loyalty. The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.
She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
Despite gospel-centred ministries, and various societies dedicated to moral reform, homosexuality, profanity, immorality, drunkenness and gluttony were widespread.
This may also intimate that such as indulge themselves in gluttony or drunkenness, and by so doing make their own table the table of devils, or keep up fellowship with Satan by a course of known and wilful wickedness, cannot partake truly of the cup and table of the Lord. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The crazy drunkenness that had already ensued and carried into the night ended what would be a momentous week for many.
The besetting sin of 18th-century urban Britain was drunkenness.
The members of the County Council are exercised about the problem of crime and drunkenness on our streets.
She spent many an agonizing night biting her lip to keep from crying out in pain as he relentlessly beat her up in his drunkenness.
On behalf of my client, Mrs. Fennell, I wish to impress upon the Bench the gravity of the offence with which the accused Richard Fennell is charged, namely, drunkenness from excessive use of an illegal intoxicant known as poteen, house-breaking, terrorizing and almost paralyzing with fear his highly strung and sensitive wife, and adding insult to injury in resisting arrest by his Majesty's guardian of law and order, Duty, and other Irish Comedies
Police had worried about trouble after the match but apart from a few incidents of drunkenness the upset didn't cause patrols any problems.
There is an association with drunkenness, too, among hundreds of cuckoo-related legends, because it's taken as being the signal for the brewers of apple cider to start drinking the first of last autumn's pressings.
I prefer a more resolutive approach to curbing drunken driving or drunkenness, and all the baggage that comes with it.
His lapse into drunkenness followed a long run of bad luck.
Children are begotten in drunkenness, saturated in drink before they draw their first breath, born to the smell and taste of it, and brought up in the midst of it. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
Contrary to popular myth , the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.
There was an old fiddler, a kind of Orpheus of the slums, who would sometimes creep in there and take his post in a corner and begin to play, happy if the mad lads threw him halfpence, or thrust a half-drained tankard under his tearful old nose: happy, too, if they did not -- as they often did -- toss the cannikin at him out of mere lightness of heart and drunkenness of wit. Marjorie
She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
The upshot was that poor Macan was put under arrest and confined in the cells that night; and when brought before the captain the next day for insubordination and drunkenness, as he had no excuse to offer he was disrated, losing his rank of corporal, with all its perquisites and privileges! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
I took him through the slums of San Francisco, and in drunkenness, prostitution, and criminality he learned a deeper cause than innate depravity. Chapter 6: Adumbrations
His last years were characterized by disillusionment, drunkenness, and excess, and he committed suicide in Leningrad, writing his last poem in his own blood.
The drunkenness, heated arguments and ribaldry of The County Election return in The Verdict of the People, which focuses on the counting of votes.
And being led and tempted on by this remorseful thought into a condition which the evil – minded class before referred to would term the maudlin state or stage of drunkenness, it occurred to Mr Swiveller to cast his hat upon the ground, and moan, crying aloud that he was an unhappy orphan, and that if he had not been an unhappy orphan things had never come to this. The Old Curiosity Shop
'but, unhappily, though there is very little drunkenness, there is a great deal of what is called "pegging" -- an intermittent kind of tippling which goes on all day long, beginning very early and ending very late. The Golden Calf
He also meditates on the long menu of Irish terms for drunkenness: "spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Search of the Classic Irish Pub
And many might like to hear tales of the political classes decamping to the seaside for a week of fervent backstabbing, orgiastic networking and roaring drunkenness.
There have been no temper tantrums, no documented instances of peevish bad behaviour or shirtiness, no haughtiness or snobbishness, no unguarded utterances, no drug-taking or public drunkenness, no unsuitable girlfriends: precious little, in fact, for the tabloids to get their teeth into. Prince William: how he has coped with a life in the spotlight
Sometimes flogging is a punishment for drunkenness. Think Progress » Conservative Activists Rebel Against Fox News: Saudi Ownership Is ‘Really Dangerous For America’
How I reconcile this with impending fraternal birthday present purchasing, imminent Christmas gift buying, forthcoming silly season drunkenness and my existing overdraft and credit card debt, I really do not know.
His poor sister, shamed by her brother's drunkenness had moved far and away where she oughtn't to have news of Masdy's daily inebriated activities. Masdy's Silver
Her shoes are off, and she hopes her feet don't smell - at least not enough so that he can smell them through the reek of drunkenness and cigarettes.
I acknowledge my ignorance of the derivation of the word temperance, but I do know drunkenness comes from drinking intoxicating liquor, therefore I favor total-abstinence and recommend it as the safe side of life for young men. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
(mixed Lydian and Hypolydian) with drunkenness, effeminacy, and idleness and considers that such music is "useless even to women that are to be virtuously given, not to say to men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
Sadly, that too has disappeared from Montmartre as absinthe is still illegal in France, and public drunkenness on the scale of Lautrec's is no more.
It seems to have been liberated from the pharmacy and drunk for pleasure in the 15th century, when the terms Bernewyn and brannten Wein, ancestors of our word brandy that meant “burning” or “burnt” wine, appear in German laws about public drunkenness. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
They all have an effect on the way we live our lives, and one of those effects is a drinking culture which reduces pleasure to drunkenness.
Mr. Willoughby and I talked animatedly together, not noticing the lateness of the hour or our increasing drunkenness.
They were shouting and bawling at each other, more in a state of drunkenness than organised malice, and those words we caught were more to do with just how drunk they were and how annoyed they were that no pubs were open.
Thanks again to everyone who came by and witnessed some pretty bad drunkenness.
Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy. Chapter 26
There was no drunkenness, as drunkenness is ordinarily understood -- no staggering and rolling around, no befuddlement of the senses. Chapter 32
As one sergeant noted, ‘he was man repeatedly punished for acts of petty thievery and drunkenness.’
Sir Walpole was a jolly fellow, eager to seize and to spend money (alieni appetens, sui profusus, as Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at Vanity Fair
This wallows in the dirt, squalor, drunkenness and mechanical, dehumanised sexuality of those who live on the margins of society, where the artistic petty bourgeois merges with the lumpenproletariat.
Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility.
The mixed drink should not have intoxicated him, but if one drinks enough of any kind of liquor, drunkenness is sure to follow.
Wine and even drunkenness are frequent images in medieval hymns and other religious poems.
Then there are the denizens of the juke joint, shouting through their drunkenness that they'll be at confessional on Sunday morning.
His last, wretched, years were marred by drunkenness and the depredations of the bailiffs, who carried off his household furniture.
On the other side of drunkenness there is a no less committed balance of prohibition and abstinence in England.
As a ‘laughing gas’, it was widely abused and popularly associated with ‘drunkenness’, in much the same way that aerosol-based nitrous oxide and ether-based glue are today.
Past year stimulant use, number of past year illicit drugs used, and past year drunkenness were examined as covariates for past year IDU.
So long as they pigged it with him and were willing to share his lot he was not unkind to them, unless he happened by some accident to achieve drunkenness.
The usual business of his court was to punish misdemeanours: public drunkenness, reckless driving, petty theft.
He said that one of the reasons for a rise in drunkenness was that people no longer checked the strength, or measurement, of their drinks.
The besetting sin of the time was drunkenness, and a couple of notorious drunks lived near Richard Baxter.
Drunkenness at work was sufficient grounds for instant dismissal.
If you need to produce severe drunkenness in order that you may carry out painful treatment on an organ, dissolve in the drink half a dram of each of darnel, fumitory, opium and henbane and half a carat of myrobalan.
How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? Thus Spake Zarathustra
Also the "bearded Darnel," _Lolium temulentum_ ( "intoxicated"), a common grass-weed in English cornfields, will produce medicinally all the symptoms of drunkenness. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
(Yeltsin's popularity, and Russia's image, suffered from his occasional displays of public drunkenness; Putin benefits from a reputation for sobriety and takes care to imbibe modestly in public.) The Accidental Autocrat
And so I think that the sobriety and drunkenness is kind of like a yin and a yang.
But repeated references to drunkenness in the plays, plus the portraits of two sots, Sir Toby Belch and Falstaff, lead Greenblatt to suspect alcoholism.
Aristotle, Theophrastus, Chamaeleon, and Hieronomus wrote essays on drunkenness. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
Outsiders, when brought before the court on charges of drunkenness, invariably pleaded to drinking too much of the local cider as the excuse for their offences.
A man may have bitterly repented and thoroughly reformed the sin of drunkenness, and by this genuine 'metanoia' and faith in Christ crucified have obtained forgiveness of the guilt, and yet continue to suffer a heavy punishment in a schirrous liver or incurable dyspepsy. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He drinks eternally in search of a drunkenness that will never come.
The modern teenager gets a bad press and is associated in many minds with yobbery, drunkenness and aggression.
Stupefactives induce a kind of drunkenness by the grossness of their vapour.

How To Use Drunkenness In A Sentence

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