bibulousness

Their bibulousness was no longer seen as romantic; instead, it lent them an air of truculence.

We found further evidence of bibulousness that afternoon amid the display cases in another house containing Deerfield's extensive silver and metalware collection, from both the 18th and 19th centuries.

If a friend's liver had finally buckled after 50 years of unstinting bibulousness, people leaving the graveside might say, with a touch of envy, "Well, he's got no right to complain."

Although his initial visit to Washington was marred by press charges of buffoonery and bibulousness, Mr. Yeltsin's second visit after his heroic role in the failed coup reflected more favor and respect.

The fifty men who later accompanied Glaucia on his walk to the saepta were all invited to the party, but no women of any sort had been invited, and the result was a comedy remarkable only for its bibulousness and its biliousness.

In characteristic Yeltsin fashion, however, his historic victory there in sealing the end of the Soviet empire was soon followed by vivid reports of a spree of bibulousness as the Russian President led a domestic summit meeting that was supposed to be drafting the post-Communist order.