drunkenly

adv

drunkenly

adv

Etymology From drunken + -ly.

1

In a drunken manner.

  • O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son, For that I was his father Edward's son; That blood already, like the pelican, Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  • […] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:
Synonyms
bibulously, intoxicatedly, leglessly, winefully

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