drink-sodden

The Russians, on whom I have wasted far too much of my life, are drink-sodden barbarians who occasionally puke up a genius.

Wonk Room » Ralph Peters: A History Of Violence 2009

As anyone who has been swept out of the racecourse's gates on the tsunami of upbeat, sozzled Scouse humanity that marks the close of Ladies' Day will attest, it makes your average, drink-sodden Cheltenham Festival look like a four-day meeting of the Temperance Society.

Raucous Grand National celebration misses only the winner Ballabriggs 2011

Bright and intelligent but from the lawless jungle that is the Donaldson Estate, Glasgow's worst in this fictional account, Tom is an enigmatic child and one entirely misunderstood by most of the adults around him. (though interestingly not in the very final analysis, by his apparently useless drink-sodden mother.)

45 entries from March 2008 2008

He must have felt the same way because, less than an hour later, the room having descended into drink-sodden chaos, he looked at his watch and then pointedly at me.

Winter Bloom Tara Heavey 2010

This excavation of the most drink-sodden era in U.S. history (1790-1840) is as damning as it is enlightening.

Books on Alcohol Daniel Okrent 2010

He once said “the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life,” and when he described Christopher Hitchens as a “drink-sodden former Trotskyist popinjay” he knew which word was meant to be most wounding.

The other end of the ice pick 2006

Butchering raddled, drink-sodden East End prostitutes.

In the Footsteps of the Ripper Sharon Bakar 2006

In the interim he has spent many months in and out of prison, always for various offences connected with his tempestuous and drink-sodden relationship with his paramour.

Some People Never Learn Bystander 2008

Eagleton also took aim at the late Kingsley Amis, calling him "a racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals."

Emma Garman: A Competition in Alpha-Male Condescension 2008

And in a show of editorial caution the words "drink-sodden" were omitted before "former Trotskyist popinjay" in the published version.

The other end of the ice pick 2006