Meaning of drunkardliness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being drunkardly.

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Examples

“A drunkard (if he is a terminologically pure drunkard—again, realities are collapsed into nominalities) necessarily takes the drink⟳ because taking the drink⟳ is necessarily implied, even if it is not compelled, by the fact of drunkardliness.”

“Justly apt shrinkage and drunkardliness”

“>A nice bout of alcoholism will clear that right up for you. Booze makes / >you popular and heals all wounds! / This sounds like⟳ awfully good advice, but I'm still frightened, seeing as how I'm a neophyte in the ways of drunkardliness. Do you have⟳ any suggestions on ways to gently ease myself into the alcoholic lifestyle?”

“'Cussing' is bad? But early LDS Church intimidation, murder⟳, castration, theft, leasing brothels for 50 years in Salt Lake City, drunkardliness, Smith marrying other men's wives behind their backs, racism, blood atonement, cash to get⟳ to heaven, terrorism with the Expositor, Mountain Meadows Massacre, etc. - is good Christian behavior?”

“[…]—his Manfred music is a mistake⟳ and a misunderstanding to the point⟳ of being an injustice—Schumann with his taste⟳, that was at bottom a small taste⟳ (namely a dangerous tendency, doubly so among Germans, toward quiet lyricism and drunkardliness of feeling), always off to one side, shyly withdrawing and retreating, a noble sissy who wallowed in all kinds of anonymous happiness and pain, a kind of girl and noli me tangere from the start⟳:[…]”

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