Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of sobriety; intemperance, especially in drinking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of sobriety; intemperateness; drunkenness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
drunk ; a lack ofsobriety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
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Examples
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I'm really not sure why someone would post a picture of him/herself in various states of insobriety and indiscretion.
Museum of Animal Perspectives frankwu 2009
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Actually, the index page for Genesis is quite revealing: insobriety ...
A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009
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"Those who seek to alienate Sharia from governance so America can be content will spread among you usury, adultery, insobriety, moral dissolution, familial schisms, and all kinds and forms of crimes," he said, according to the official transcript.
U.S. Is on Alert for Hastened Plots Keith Johnson 2011
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Anyone arrested for insobriety in Vermont was subject to a mandatory jail sentence if he failed to name the person from whom he acquired his liquor.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Along the way, the mild-mannered Green is introduced to the joys of groupie sex, narcotic-fuelled insobriety of dubious origin via a giant bifter known as a "Jeffrey", and various other staples of the rock star lifestyle.
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In religious life, insobriety is evident in popular movements that promote super-spiritual phenomena, born-again testimonies, and an extreme emphasis on charismatic gifts, appealing to the certainty of personal first-order experiences by themselves, which must be repeated to keep up the momentum, sometimes in new and questionable ways.
Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos 2010
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The most pervasive form of insobriety in American culture is consumerism.
Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos 2010
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Anyone arrested for insobriety in Vermont was subject to a mandatory jail sentence if he failed to name the person from whom he acquired his liquor.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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This is a serious mistake because it results in a harsh dichotomy between spiritual life and the material world, and leads to insobriety.
Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos 2010
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In the 16 years since the death of her husband, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love has achieved infamy as a verbally incontinent mascot to insobriety.
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