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  • adjective comparative form of tipsy: more tipsy

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Examples

  • Be forewarned that the barbeques are a little tipsier than they look, as our 1-year-old discovered.

    Las Estacas - Riverside Aquatic Park In Morelos 2008

  • I played with it for years, but I could never quite get it to cohere until one night lying in the dark in the wee hours of the morning, it came to me that the problem was the ABA rhyme scheme, that the speaker needed the exuberance of a faster, tipsier, happier AABB rhyme.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • I played with it for years, but I could never quite get it to cohere until one night lying in the dark in the wee hours of the morning, it came to me that the problem was the ABA rhyme scheme, that the speaker needed the exuberance of a faster, tipsier, happier AABB rhyme.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • I sipped the words like an elixer, getting tipsier and tipsier.

    The Explanation Mark Kerstetter 2010

  • I played with it for years, but I could never quite get it to cohere until one night lying in the dark in the wee hours of the morning, it came to me that the problem was the ABA rhyme scheme, that the speaker needed the exuberance of a faster, tipsier, happier AABB rhyme.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • And if I'd been just a little less certain of myself, or on two of the occasions a little tipsier than I was, then I might not have pushed them away when they did, and I would have been raped.

    The Great Rape Conspiracy tithenai 2010

  • Be forewarned that the barbeques are a little tipsier than they look, as our 1-year-old discovered.

    Las Estacas - Riverside Aquatic Park In Morelos 2008

  • I think that things took a turn for the tipsier when Timmy encouraged beer-chugging races.

    qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2004

  • The servants are growing tipsier downstairs, but the more afraid of the chief functionary every time he appears, frozen into sobriety by his glance.

    The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 1905

  • The butler could do that, or the parlour-maid, if the former happened to be tipsier than usual.

    From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897

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