Meaning

(rare) The quality of being a drunkard..

Example Sentences

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 cast out into a thoroughfare which, two hours hence, will be re-echoing to the wheels of carriages bearing noble lords and ladies to listen to the delicious [Angiolina] Bosio in the “Traviata,” or the enchanting notes of [Enrico] Tamberlik in “Otello.”

Fallacy of the consequent. (Drunkardry causes destitution, ‘therefore’ destitution proves drunkardry. It is only a ‘factor in favour’ in the terminology of Ref. 18).

When the [American] Civil War broke out, [Mark] Twain may have briefly entertained pro-Union sentiments but at length decided to serve with a ragtag bunch of Confederate irregulars. After a couple of weeks, “hunted like a rat the whole time,” he thought better of that commitment and, as Huck Finn did, lit out for the territory. This territory was Nevada and California, where he prospected for silver without luck and practiced scurrilous journalism and general drunkardry with zest.

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.

Synonyms for drunkardry

When Should You Use Drunkardry?

Use drunkardry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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