drunkardly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of a drunkard.
Example Sentences
- "Manuel, (breaking in drunkardly.)"
- "How could I be surprised then when she signed on with a sweet-talking Dutch editor who drunkardly, foaming at the mouth, heckled an Allen Ginsberg reading by screaming, again and again: “Get off the stage you filthy kike faggot!”"
- "Any impairment the experimental group exhibits may be due to the alcohol, or it may arise because giving subjects alcohol implies that we expect them to act drunkardly, so they do."
- "Callous, drunkardly and unscrupulous, Mrs Gamp is the archetype of the uncaring and uneducated midwife."
- "Newspapers and even some “scientific” theory reinforced vicious stereotypes that depicted Italians as swarthy and stupid, Irish as lazy and drunkardly, Jews as greedy and cunning."
- "Our captain is the meanest and most drunkardly, low-down person that you can imagine on God’s earth."
Etymology
From drunkard + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more drunkardly (comparative)
most drunkardly (superlative)