tipsiness


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Synonyms for tipsiness

the condition of being intoxicated with alcoholic liquor

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Synonyms for tipsiness

a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

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The problem for those who wanted to be someone other than themselves was the distinctly unstable nature of tipsiness and the possibility of losing control over how their drunken selves might behave.
Before I serve my home-cooked meal to 14 people on Christmas Day, I actively encourage a modicum of tipsiness ...or, as we call it, Dutch courage.
"She was upset because people had been watching the activities and, in a state of tipsiness and embarrassment she made the allegations," she said.
O-namazu-go no namayoi (Tipsiness following the great namazu, Figure 5) (50) depicts a large group still somewhat disoriented in the immediate wake of the earthquake.
For the next three weeks our streets will see groups of friends and work colleagues swaying from pub to pub, in various stages of tipsiness.
It couldn't possibly be anything to do with all that adultery, tipsiness and rudeness showing them to be mere mortals after all, could it?
Tipsiness covers a multitude of sins-anyway it explains why Frieda, on returning to Taos, forgot to take the remains with her.
This surgically induced tipsiness is not only foreign to the American comity rule, as ultimately exemplified by the Aerospatiale decision outlined below, it is also responsible for the confusion and difficulty often surrounding a jurist's attempt to employ the doctrine.
Dressed in a big poofy blue dress, able to make the audience giggle just by wobbling across the stage in mild tipsiness, Kane easily captures the absurdities of this once-respectable woman who gave it all up for a doomed affair with a lion tamer.
His tipsiness, his grandiosity, seem to just go away.
Obviously, there was some tipsiness here, but the crowd was not the usual drunk-out-of-their-minds that usually packs limes Square on other New Years eves.
Then the suggestion was of tipsiness, and of an awareness of behaving disreputably.
West, who sees in this passage a similarity to the lactation of terra genetrix in Book 5, notes (6) a hint of sexuality in lasciva, connected with the suggestion of tipsiness in lacte mero.