‘It was the ‘nightmare’ of her life with her drunken father that made her seek refuge in make-believe.’
‘A high proportion of women who marry drunks also had drunken fathers.’
‘Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father.’
‘His drunken father, who barely knows him, just wanted a free plane ride from the military.’
‘Then she stood and shoved her drunken father with all the strength she could manage.’
‘This is the story of a boy growing up with a drunken father and a philandering mother.’
‘Of course, it never occurred to the landlord he was in actual fact selling the drinks to this drunken monstrosity.’
1.2Caused by or showing the effects of drink.
‘the man's drunken, slurred speech’
‘Their warning comes as the Government has announced a crackdown on binge drinking and drunken anti-social behaviour.’
‘Will longer drinking hours mean more drunken violence and alcohol-fuelled bad behaviour?’
‘It happened one night when he returned from a family party in a drunken stupor, brandishing a shotgun and threatening to kill his wife and child.’
‘Pauline went on to say that others, in a drunken stupor, regularly use the estate as a toilet and not just for urinating.’
‘Police found him at the flat, almost naked and in a drunken stupor.’
‘It feels strange watching him, now that I know many times that drunken slur was faked.’
‘It was then that she noticed that his voice was completely clear of any drunken slur.’
‘For some reason I wasn't charged but several other players were asked to pay their huge hotel bar bills after a night of drunken debauchery.’
‘The spectacle that is the weekly toga party can only be described as complete drunken debauchery.’
‘If it's a holiday of drunken debauchery you want, this is not your dream destination.’
‘When he got around to telling about his drunken speech, Theresa saw her next opening.’
‘I am supposed to be writing a drunken blog post but I'm not drunk.’
‘Even the poignantly romantic In the Still of the Night comes a little oddly at the end of a second act filled with allegations of drunken debauchery.’
‘Alex's voice, though not yet slurred, was obviously beginning to take on a drunken edge.’
‘Not only was Paul frightened of his father's drunken wrath, all the children were.’
‘Her mother shot and killed her alcoholic father in self-defence during a drunken argument in front of their daughter.’
‘I explained that it was his father, my husband, on one of his drunken rampages.’
‘Ama went through the door of her house still in enough of a drunken daze to forget that her father was not the kind to let her get to her room before unloading on her.’
‘Before that, he regularly witnessed his father beat his mother in fits of drunken rage.’
‘They flee the dacha when the father is shot by Mikhail in a drunken misunderstanding.’