Example sentences for: drunkard

How can you use “drunkard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My list, after dullard , counted dotard, bastard, buzzard, coward, dastard, drunkard, laggard, lollard, niggard and wizard .

  • It is also used to mean a drunkard or a very stupid person.

  • At first the English were content with unalloyed borrowings, but then began tacking the invidious -ard onto purely English words, producing the likes of drunkard, laggard , and sluggard .

  • Never mind all this, the lawyer will cling to them like the drunkard to his bottle.

  • In Henry IV , young Hal is a roustabout who keeps the company of a band of merry thieves led by the obese drunkard Falstaff, who has been described by critic Harold Bloom as the life force incarnate.


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