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Discover LudwigThe word 'drunkenness' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an excessive amount of alcohol consumption leading to intoxication. Example sentence: "He had a long history of drunkenness, and it finally caught up with him."
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drunkenness
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A state of being drunk
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"Most came back and said: 'Wow, I haven't had something like this since I left the police academy.'" "We have been intoxicated with bad policing in America for a long time," says borough president Adams, "and we have refused to acknowledge that drunkenness.
A handful of objects including a Victorian cast of the head of a hanged man and a delicate lace pillow embroidered with her own hair by a woman arrested hundreds of times for public drunkenness have left one of the most private collections in the world for the first time, for the first public exhibition from the Black Museum of the Metropolitan police.
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Gautier was impressed by Moreau's theories, especially perhaps his description of cannabis as "an intellectual intoxication", preferable to the "ignoble heavy drunkenness" of alcohol.
Rosemary showed us how to transform ourselves into virtually any age and race, using a chart showing a man's head surrounded by tips for each part of his face ("For drunkenness or fatigue, a touch of carmine just below the eyelid... ......)... ......
Nowadays, when British people see antisocial behaviour – feet on seats on public transport, littering, swearing, drunkenness, bullying – we avert our eyes, we try not to get involved and, if we can, we hurry away.
Director Joseph Clancy, who has the task of building the secret service back after multiple public drunkenness scandals and a leadership overhaul, asked the House appropriations committee on Tuesday to support the construction of the fake White House.
A BA spokesman said yesterday: "Naturally we accept the court's decision but we will continue to treat allegations of assault on our staff and drunkenness on an aircraft extremely seriously and support any prosecutions".
I realise that after the death of Charles Kennedy drunkenness is not something anyone must ever admit to as being fun, but these double standards applied to women are from another era.
Dutton said he was not preaching drunkenness but "responsible drinking".
In 2008 Time magazine described Britain's youth as "unhappy, unloved and out of control"; a nation gripped by an "epidemic of violence, crime and drunkenness" was scared of its feral youth.
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