drunkardly

English

Etymology

From drunkard +‎ -ly.

Adverb

drunkardly (comparative more drunkardly, superlative most drunkardly)

1. In the manner of a drunkard.
   • 1877, Bret Harte, “How a Grant was Got for It”, in The Story of a Mine, part II (In the Courts):

     Manuel, (breaking in drunkardly.)

   • 1994, Exquisite Corpse, page 3:

     How could I be surprised then when she signed on with a sweet-talking Dutch editor who drunkardly, foaming at the mouth, heckled an Allen Ginsberg reading by screaming, again and again: “Get off the stage you filthy kike faggot!”

   • 1995, Gary W. Heiman, Research Methods in Psychology, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 154:

     Any impairment the experimental group exhibits may be due to the alcohol, or it may arise because giving subjects alcohol implies that we expect them to act drunkardly, so they do.

Adjective

drunkardly (comparative more drunkardly, superlative most drunkardly)

1. Characteristic of a drunkard.
   • 1968, Madeleine Riley, Brought to Bed, South Brunswick, New York: A. S. Barnes and Company:

     Callous, drunkardly and unscrupulous, Mrs Gamp is the archetype of the uncaring and uneducated midwife.

   • 1975, Howard P. Chudacoff, The Evolution of American Urban Society, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

     Newspapers and even some “scientific” theory reinforced vicious stereotypes that depicted Italians as swarthy and stupid, Irish as lazy and drunkardly, Jews as greedy and cunning.

   • 2006, “Private Paul Petasch”, in Susan Carter Vogel, transl., edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, section “Letters”, subsection “Western Theater”, page 312:

     Our captain is the meanest and most drunkardly, low-down person that you can imagine on God’s earth.

Derived terms

• drunkardliness