Sentence examples for dry drunk from inspiring English sources
noun
A person with the disease of alcoholism who is not drinking alcohol, but has relapsed mentally and emotionally.
"Think the turkey's dry, Drunk Uncle Joe? How's THAT taste?" Good times.
Brownstein is like a dry drunk on the subject of indie identity politics.
I manfully went on a year's white-knuckle "dry drunk", as AA jargon puts it.
The inability to see distinctions that are obvious to others seems a classic trait of the dry drunk.
"The blotted line gives a jumpy and nervous and emotionally unstable rhythm to the otherwise coherent line, like a dry drunk".
Nick is what some AA circles would call a "dry drunk", someone who acts like an addict even though they're on the wagon.
Dry drunks, they're called.
He was concerned that buprenorphine would create "all these dry drunks, people who were no longer using but who hadn't addressed their defects".
Almost as funny as dry-drunk Russell Brand's face this week when he had to act as his well-refreshed wife Katy Perry's designated driver.
In one of the creepier passages of the book, a family gathering from hell at Kennebunkport, Maine, Barbara is shown mercilessly baiting her dry-drunk son, then governor of Texas, as a teetotalling 'Chosen One', while he keeps pleading to skip the cocktails and put on the feed bag, and his elderly father "drools over [TV newswoman] Paula Zahn's legs".
For me, Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee.
