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In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary
5 British vocabulary words
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crapulous
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synonyms: bibulous, surfeit, edacious ???
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Definition:1. excessive in eating or drinking; gluttonous2. suffering from the effects of (2), i.e. having a stomachache or hangover and feeling like crap
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Bunbury is not savage, but he has the same English seriousness and something of the same brutality. The faces here are crapulous and distorted, and the subject is treated without lightness or good-nature.
Richard Muther. The History of Modern Painting, Book 3 (1907)
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Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought
You a total abstainer, my son."
"So I am, so I am," said the scapegrace caught—
"But not, sir, a bigoted one."
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary.
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But to suppose that she went to bad houses, that she abandoned herself to orgies with other women, that she led the crapulous existence of the most abject, the most contemptible of mortals
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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