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Sentence Examples
Trying to complete his Octavo, he befriends a dipsomaniac calligrapher and a pair of fan makers who have fled revolutionary France.
There are modish clichés in the libretto, from the reclusive computer programmer to the dipsomaniac divorcee whose Eastern European cleaner accidentally bins a work of contemporary art.
The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
Examples from Classical Literature
He must no more trifle with the girl than a dipsomaniac with the brandy bottle!
Remember what I said as to the phenomena presented by the dreamer, the hypnotic subject, the dipsomaniac, the narcomaniac.
In England a spendthrift or dipsomaniac can only be controlled when he has spent all his money.
The present Duke had none of the spirit or sense of his ancestors, and was, moreover, a dipsomaniac.
This physician finds from the evidence that Poe was a dipsomaniac.
Nelda is the nymphomaniac sister, and Geraldine is the dipsomaniac.
I know now that he really was a dipsomaniac of a somewhat unusual kind.
I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac.
Why do they not ring the bell and remove the dipsomaniac prize-fighter?
I liked him very much, but, unlike most Mahomedans, he was a dipsomaniac.
When he came up he was within arm's reach of the dipsomaniac.
The world must remain in a reverent doubt as to whether he would, on the same principles, have presented a diplomatist to a dipsomaniac or a ratiocinator to a rat catcher.
