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insobriety

/in-suh-brahy-i-tee/US // ˌɪn səˈbraɪ ɪ ti //UK // (ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ) //

不安份守己,不安于现状,不安分,不安分的人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.

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Examples

  • Insobriety is, as I need hardly tell you, the one unpardonable sin in the eyes of a shipowner.

  • That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety.

  • The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.

  • For a period he was engaged as a salesman, till habits of insobriety rendered his services unavailable to his employer.

  • She had even survived the Cesarean operation, and reached a great age notwithstanding her scandalous insobriety.