drunkenly
English
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editdrunkenly (comparative more drunkenly, superlative most drunkenly)
- In a drunken manner.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
For that I was his father Edward's son;
That blood already, like the pelican,
Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck[1]:
- […] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex.