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half-drunk

adjective

  1. partially intoxicated with alcohol
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Two half-drunk cups of tea, and a plate of bread and butter and crisps were found in the living-room - fuelling speculation that someone else had visited the house that evening.

From BBC

Teachers had to abandon ship so quickly that in some cases, half-drunk cups of tea sat on their desks for months.

From BBC

The next morning, an image of him sat alone in the stand, a half-drunk plastic cup next to him, was on the front page of the paper at which he worked.

From BBC

You could huck the spent shells back into the water from our table, the only danger being hitting a guy snoozing in the sunshine in an Adirondack chair with a half-drunk pint of beer on its wooden arm.

These boycotts are often comically short-lived, such as when former President Donald Trump called on his supporters to skip drinking Coca-Cola after the soda manufacturer spoke out against restrictive voting laws in its home state of Georgia — only for online sleuths to quickly point out a half-drunk bottle of Diet Coke on his desk just a few days later.

From Salon

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