drunkardry
drunkardry noun: the quality of being a drunkard.
Noun
drunkardry (uncountable)
- The quality of being a drunkard.
- When the hour of departure arrives, you see the pavement and carriage way of Bow Street studded with a choice assemblage of the raggedry, ruffianry, felonry, misery, drunkardry, and drabbery, whom the infamous hundred of Drury [Lane], and the scarcely less infamous tithing of Covent [Garden], have...1858 August 7, George Augustus Sala, “Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London […] Five o’Clock p.m.—The Fashionable Club, and the Prisoners’ Van.”, in The Welcome Guest: A...
- Fallacy of the consequent. (Drunkardry causes destitution, ‘therefore’ destitution proves drunkardry. It is only a ‘factor in favour’ in the terminology of Ref. 18).1959, Methodos, page 153
- Synonyms:
- drunkardness
drunkardry meaning in Bengali
drunkardry in Bengali
- drunkardry
- মাস্তানি mastani
Examples of drunkardry in a sentence
- This territory was Nevada and California, where he prospected for silver without luck and practiced scurrilous journalism and general drunkardry with zest.2008 July 14, Roy Blount Jr., “America’s Original Superstar”, in Time, volume 172, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, page 51...
- But just in case the Danes decide it isn’t nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous drunkardry from across the water, there are contingency measures.2009 January 11, David Whitley, “Two beers or not two beers?: Denmark”, in The Sun-Herald, Sydney, N.S.W., page 22:
Synonyms of drunkardry
Origin of drunkardry
From drunkard + -ry.
Questions about drunkardry
- What does drunkardry mean?
- Drunkardry means the quality of being a drunkard.
- What is drunkardry in Bengali?
- Drunkardry in Bengali is মাস্তানি (mastani). See Drunkardry meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use drunkardry in a sentence?
- This territory was Nevada and California, where he prospected for silver without luck and practiced scurrilous journalism and general drunkardry with zest.
- What part of speech is drunkardry?
- Drunkardry is a noun.
Words near drunkardry in the dictionary
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