insobriety

[ in-suh-brahy-i-tee ]
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noun
  1. lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.

Origin of insobriety

1
First recorded in 1605–15; in-3 + sobriety

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How to use insobriety in a sentence

  • insobriety is, as I need hardly tell you, the one unpardonable sin in the eyes of a shipowner.

    Dick Leslie's Luck | Harry Collingwood
  • That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety.

    Essays of Travel | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.

    Boating | W. B. Woodgate
  • For a period he was engaged as a salesman, till habits of insobriety rendered his services unavailable to his employer.

  • She had even survived the Cesarean operation, and reached a great age notwithstanding her scandalous insobriety.

    Acrobats and Mountebanks | Hugues Le Roux

British Dictionary definitions for insobriety

insobriety

/ (ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ) /


noun
  1. lack of sobriety; intemperance

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