drunkenly

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Etymology

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From drunken +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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drunkenly (comparative more drunkenly, superlative most drunkenly)

  1. In a drunken manner.
    • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
      For that I was his father Edward's son;
      That blood already, like the pelican,
      Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:
    • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck[1]:
      [] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex.

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