insobriety
lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.
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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 CollingwoodThat also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety.
Essays of Travel | Robert Louis StevensonThe tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.
Boating | W. B. WoodgateFor a period he was engaged as a salesman, till habits of insobriety rendered his services unavailable to his employer.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. | VariousShe 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
/ (ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ) /
lack of sobriety; intemperance
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