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Grammar : Adj
Spell : druhng-kuhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrʌŋ kən



Définition of drunken

Origin :
  • full form of the past participle of drunk. Meaning "inebriated" was in Old English druncena; adjectival meaning "habitually intoxicated" is from 1540s. Related: Drunkenly.
  • adj drunk
Example sentences :
  • But I got him too straight—let a drunken man alone for telling the truth when he's got it in him.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He's got a drunken father,—one of the meanest kind of drunkards.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • "Often enough," he said fiercely, and he thought of his drunken father.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • "Keep your tongue still, or it will be the worse for you," shouted the most drunken of the archers.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • At the first step Mortimer staggered and swayed like a drunken man.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • In dashed the drunken retainer, and Gulielma was once more in peril.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • He could have her for the asking, at this very hour, in her drunken husband's bed.
  • Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
  • It is unjust, because it punishes the sober man for the vice of the drunken man.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • If a girl mends her clothes on her back, she risks having a drunken husband.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Yesterday we saw for the first time in Freeland a drunken man!
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

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