beerily

comparative more beerily · superlative most beerily

1. informalIn a beery manner; while smelling of, or under the influence of, beer.

   He belched beerily. Well, eating would have to wait.

   1988, Dan W Smith, Silver Spoon Murders

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   The politically ambitious and the beerily dissolute artisan of whom you read in the newspapers by no means constitute all the odder varieties of the species.

   1876, Richard Whiteing, The Democracy

   Hamper bent to Dunbar and whispered, beerily, in his ear . . .

   1915, Sax Rohmer, The Yellow Claw