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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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Use "crapulous" in a sentence
  • "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."