“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.”

“Trying to complete his Octavo, he befriends a dipsomaniac calligrapher and a pair of fan makers who have fled revolutionary France.”

“He gossips about the dipsomania in town whilst tracking down and smashing stills.”

“Alongside Faye Dunaway, Rourke trashed his glamorous image to drag the audience into an abyss of dipsomania.”

“These characters could inhabit an early Waugh but not a later one, where dipsomania is not a joke but a debilitating disease that wrecks lives.”

“We opt for number two, and discover the dipso cooks a mean cheese omelette.”

“He famously adopted the stage persona of an affectless drunk, only to turn, after his son's death, into a genuine dipso.”

“Watching it, we were laughing about what a dipso the director must be.”

“Every reputable physician approaches with something of dread the subject of the treatment of those classes of patients known as morphiomaniacs and dipsomaniacs.”

“Before anyone starts worrying about crowds of dipsomaniacs descending on the NHS, drunkenly demanding new livers to ruin, the pilot scheme aims to involve 20 patients, who may take up to two years to recruit.”

“Then there's the popular idea that the country's females have gone to the bad, and we're all chardonnay-sozzled dipsomaniacs, drinking men under the table.”