Examples of drunkard in a Sentence
Her father was a drunkard.
accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem
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In the 1880s, a New York heiress with an active and unorthodox social life was declared a habitual drunkard, placed under a legal guardianship, and later confined to an asylum.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
Ben and Anne are written out of the will for being a drunkard and a woman, respectively.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Also very good are Orville Mendoza as the drunkard actor Selsdon, Matthew Patrick Davis as the production’s nervous jack-of-all-trades Tim and Abby Leigh Huffstetler as incompetent stage manager Poppy.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
Ben and Anne are written out of the will for being a drunkard and a woman, respectively.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Also very good are Orville Mendoza as the drunkard actor Selsdon, Matthew Patrick Davis as the production’s nervous jack-of-all-trades Tim and Abby Leigh Huffstetler as incompetent stage manager Poppy.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for drunkard
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“Drunkard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drunkard. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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drunkard
noun
drunk·ard
ˈdrəŋ-kərd 
: a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
Medical Definition
drunkard
noun
drunk·ard
ˈdrəŋ-kərd
: one suffering from or subject to acute or chronic alcoholism : one who habitually becomes drunk
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