Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- noun Excessive indulgence; intemperance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Drunkenness; a surfeit, or the sickness following drunkenness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sickness orindisposition caused byexcessive eating ordrinking - noun
intemperance ;debauchery ;excessive indulgence
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Jonathan Karl is back today, as we wait for Christiane Amanpour to join us on Sunday and either get inexorably sucked into its crapulence and end up looking like the "Nightly ... at the Bellagio" version of her former self, or make my Sunday mornings a much better place.
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Instead, her failures are Bush-like in their breath-taking crapulence.
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Suddenly, he is Ground Zero for so much media crapulence.
Rahm Emanuel And David Axelrod Have Become The Sum Of All Media Crapulence 2010
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Jonathan Karl is back today, as we wait for Christiane Amanpour to join us on Sunday and either get inexorably sucked into its crapulence and end up looking like the "Nightly ... at the Bellagio" version of her former self, or make my Sunday mornings a much better place.
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Got to his shop and check out the SIDE view of this crapulence!
Regretsy – Gag Gift 2010
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Suddenly, he is Ground Zero for so much media crapulence.
Rahm Emanuel And David Axelrod Have Become The Sum Of All Media Crapulence 2010
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I don't know whether those who struggle endlessly against life's rough tides are more "spiritual" than the ones who wallow and finally drown in their own reeking crapulence.
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Ergo, you continue to drift in the Sea of Pointlessness, a basin filled with the sloshing of your own crapulence.
Forget The Prez Race -- The Real Oregon Contest To Watch Is Colorful Senate Primary 2009
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Terrell Owens takes his unique brand of team-destroying crapulence to the Buffalo Bills.
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The fact that most Americans still think it's a toss-up shows the crapulence of your media.
Obama Camp: McCain Running "A Campaign Not Worthy Of The Office He's Seeking" 2009
seanahan commented on the word crapulence
Mr. Burns "wallowing in my own crapulence" is the first time I'd ever heard this word.
February 21, 2007
arby commented on the word crapulence
Me too, and I just about died laughing when I heard it. Prime Simpsons, that.
July 2, 2008
jacqualine commented on the word crapulence
This is actually a word? What a magical intersection of entertainment and reality!
August 24, 2011