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In the manner of one who is addicted to an intoxicating liquor.

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Usage examples (29)
  • Rushton Skakel drank alcoholically for four years following his wife's death.
  • Or, you know, anyone who lives reasonably close and doesn't mind hanging out with an alcoholically challenged dork for an evening.
  • By contrast, McCarthy had grown so reckless and alcoholically irrational that he even charged ultra-conservative Republicans with appeasing communism.
  • He loved Urfa, annd I found it warmly hospitable if a bit too alcoholically "dry"-- only soft drinks in the mini- bar, unlike in Ankara and points west.
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