libatious

Adjective

1. Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.
   • The saloons flourish, though desperate drunkenness is not so frequent as in the larger cities. It is the sottish, unthinking, maudlin, libacious sort, who drink their beer and sit in muddled contemplation of their pipe,...
   • Mama said he'd be a failure Live down on the Bowery somewhere, yeah Libacious schoolboy with that slicked back hair - 1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan...
   • […] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test. She failed. - 2016, Iain Spragg, “Sister Caught in the Act”, in Teachers' Strangest Tales:

   Synonyms: boozy