Definition of "crapulous" [crapulous]

• Characterized by excessive eating or drinking. (adjective)
• Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking. (adjective)
• Surcharged with liquor; alcoholism; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating; drunk; given to excesses. (adjective)

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• "Joe -- love the word crapulous -- I am going to borrow it the first chance I get."
• "Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass.""
• "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."