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Interventizio Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Staggering, desultory, stumbling...
What do you call the typical walk of a drunk person, maybe using an adjective + the word "gait"?
"I saw a man walking down the street in (?) a [...] gait today. He must have been drunk. At 9 am!"
"I saw a man walking down the street in (?) a [...] gait today. He must have been drunk. At 9 am!"
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Hi The preposition 'in' is OK there, but the most often used is 'with' - he walked with a stumbling gait 'Desultory' is a good word but many people walk down the street in an aimless way without being drunk I think 'staggering' and 'stumbling' are right - and you could also have 'shambling' or just 'unsteady' Dave
- Hi The preposition 'in' is OK there, but the most often used is 'with' - he walked with a stumbling gait 'Desultory' is a good word but many people walk down the street in an aimless way without being drunk I think 'staggering' and 'stumbling' are right - and you could also have 'shambling' or just 'unsteady' Dave
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Hi
The preposition 'in' is OK there, but the most often used is 'with' - he walked with a stumbling gait
'Desultory' is a good word but many people walk down the street in an aimless way without being drunk
I think 'staggering' and 'stumbling' are right - and you could also have 'shambling' or just 'unsteady'
Dave
The preposition 'in' is OK there, but the most often used is 'with' - he walked with a stumbling gait
'Desultory' is a good word but many people walk down the street in an aimless way without being drunk
I think 'staggering' and 'stumbling' are right - and you could also have 'shambling' or just 'unsteady'
Dave
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