Definition of "crapulence" [crap•u•lence]

• Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking. (noun)
• Excessive indulgence; intemperance. (noun)

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• "Jonathan Karl is back today, as we wait for Christiane Amanpour to join us on Sunday and either get inexorably sucked into its crapulence and end up looking like the "Nightly ... at the Bellagio" version of her former self, or make my Sunday mornings a much better place."
• "Suddenly, he is Ground Zero for so much media crapulence."
• "Instead, her failures are Bush-like in their breath-taking crapulence."