drunkardly
drunkardly adverb: in the manner of a drunkard.
Adverb
drunkardly (comparative more drunkardly, superlative most drunkardly)
- In the manner of a drunkard.
- Manuel, (breaking in drunkardly.)1877, Bret Harte, “How a Grant was Got for It”, in The Story of a Mine, part II (In the Courts)
- How could I be surprised then when she signed on with a sweet-talking Dutch editor who drunkardly, foaming at the mouth, heckled an Allen Ginsberg reading by screaming, again and again: “Get off the stage you filthy kike faggot!”1994, Exquisite Corpse, page 3
Adjective
drunkardly (comparative more drunkardly, superlative most drunkardly)
- Characteristic of a drunkard.
- Callous, drunkardly and unscrupulous, Mrs Gamp is the archetype of the uncaring and uneducated midwife.1968, Madeleine Riley, Brought to Bed, South Brunswick; New York: A. S. Barnes and Company
- Newspapers and even some “scientific” theory reinforced vicious stereotypes that depicted Italians as swarthy and stupid, Irish as lazy and drunkardly, Jews as greedy and cunning.1975, Howard P. Chudacoff, The Evolution of American Urban Society, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 117
Examples of drunkardly in a sentence
- Any impairment the experimental group exhibits may be due to the alcohol, or it may arise because giving subjects alcohol implies that we expect them to act drunkardly, so they do.1995, Gary W. Heiman, Research Methods in Psychology, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 154:
- Our captain is the meanest and most drunkardly, low-down person that you can imagine on God’s earth.2006, “Private Paul Petasch”, in Susan Carter Vogel, transl., edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, Germans in the Civil...
Forms of drunkardly
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more drunkardly |
| superlative | most drunkardly |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more drunkardly |
| superlative | most drunkardly |
Origin of drunkardly
From drunkard + -ly.
Words formed from drunkardly
Questions about drunkardly
- What does drunkardly mean?
- Drunkardly means in the manner of a drunkard.
- How do you use drunkardly in a sentence?
- Any impairment the experimental group exhibits may be due to the alcohol, or it may arise because giving subjects alcohol implies that we expect them to act drunkardly, so they do.
- What part of speech is drunkardly?
- Drunkardly can be an adverb or an adjective.
Words near drunkardly in the dictionary
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