The word "insobriety" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is behaving in a wild, disorderly, and/or reckless way - especially as a result of being inebriated. Example sentence: After drinking the entire bottle of tequila, his insobriety cost him his job.
During up to 50 sessions, the irezumi master brooks no tardiness, insobriety or whingeing.Then there is the lifetime of pariah status that follows.
Despite his insobriety, Kogut passed a polygraph test in which he insisted that he knew nothing about the crime.
The relationship between the concentration of alcohol in the blood and insobriety has been clearly established, and can he mathematically rendered.
This should cure your hangover once and for all, leaving you with a calming sensation of insobriety and joylessness.
Elizabeth Kolbert's reality check on high gas prices is a splash of cold water in a season of national political insobriety (Comment, April 2nd).
"Those who seek to alienate Shariah from governance so America can be content will spread amongst you usury, adultery, insobriety, moral dissolution, familial schisms and all kinds and forms of crimes," he railed in his latest message, which was translated on Jihadology.net.net
Had he the foresight to make himself the colorful and combative public figure Jonson was — jailed several times, famed for insobriety, sometime friend and sometime foe of the mighty names of his age — we would not be plagued by the rankling theories of the Oxfordians that still clamor today.
Billington, who was not at the awards lunch, said: "I agree with her point about press nights, but I think she's wrong to suggest that the reaction to her play was the result of insobriety.
Since her 1998 début novel, "Caucasia," a stark story about two biracial sisters, Senna, like Ross before her, has developed her own kind of insobriety, one focussed on comically eviscerating the archetype of the "tragic mulatto" — that nineteenth-century invention who experiences an emotional anguish rooted in her warring, mixed bloods.
Observing that the "defining characteristic of the African-American writer is sobriety," Beatty described his own path toward a black literary insobriety, one that would lead to the satirical style of his novels "White Boy Shuffle" and "The Sellout".
