drunkenly
7
5.0
- adverb
- /ˈdrʌŋkənli/
:
ebriamente
- Some nights he rushed drunkenly into my room and yanked me out of bed.
- drunkenly stumbling
- drunkenly swaying
- drunkenly laughing
They sit there mocking me as I drunkenly cradle myself to sleep, cold and alone in my pathetic excuse of an apartment.
- They sit there mocking me as I drunkenly cradle myself to sleep, cold and alone in my pathetic excuse of an apartment.
- You know, I drunkenly reached out to you December time unsent it thinking you wouldn't want to hear from me.
- Like, and I was watching it so much that like I was, we were drunkenly, you were there, but not like where it happened.
Examples
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Thus, we argued drunkenly and insulted our benefactor in the name of principle.
Fiction book (1998) -
Now the trailer is an unguided missile, weaving drunkenly back and forth across the blacktop.
Fiction book (1997) -
I went back to my room and you came like, drunkenly knocking on my door a couple hours later.
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For a long moment, I stood swaying drunkenly, trying to figure out where he had gone.
Fiction book (1994) -
College kids on spring break laugh drunkenly as they leave the club, one belches loudly.
Fiction book (1999) -
Fats comes stumbling out drunkenly, bottle in one hand, keys in the other.
Fiction book (1999) -
At a small homecoming party thrown by his wife, Burroughs drunkenly proposed the idea of moving to South America... where he could hunt wild boar.
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Stump and Ramona stagger in drunkenly; they are awkward and passionate.
Fiction book (1994) -
Hank, barefoot, is drunkenly wandering around the front yard in his pajama bottoms and back brace.
Fiction book (1990) -
College kids on spring break laugh drunkenly as they leave the club, one belches loudly.
Synonyms
46
5.8
Not able to do daily tasks safely because of alcohol or drugs
1
6.1
In a way that shows you are a little drunk and unsteady
In a way that shows someone is drunk
Drunk after drinking too much alcohol
In a drunk and foolish way
Antonyms
How Drunk
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Drunkenly begins with drunk, from the verb drink ('to drink'), and the ending -ly means 'in a ... way'. So drunkenly means 'in a way that shows someone has drunk too much alcohol'.