If you're feeling crapulous the morning after the big celebration, drinking lots of water and taking some aspirin will help. —— Merriam-Webster

Tate curator Emma Dexter probably wanted an anti-institutional look. But nothing here really lives, and there's too much that truly is minor art, a million crapulous little gestures on which dozens of glittering careers in the fashion and media-friendly art world are made. The buzz is there all right - the style mag crossovers, Gillian Wearing lurching down the Walworth Road with her head bandaged, Tracey and Sarah getting drunk, a big pink Gary Hume door painting in a room on its own toremind us of the glamour as well as the grit. We are all probably too close to all of it, and no one wants to be wrong-footed by making definitive judgments. —— Adrian Searle; Urban sprawl; Guardian; Feb 1, 2001

He had difficulty getting American publishers for his later novels, partly because of his self-created image by then as a crusty old kvetch, partly because of the books' supposed misogyny and political incorrectness, though to be fair, most of them weren't very good.--Kingsley deserves a revival, or at least his best books do, and his letters are worth reading by anyone at all interested in English writing and society in the half century after the war. He published some crapulous and cantankerous memoirs in 1992, and three years later what Martin calls a "curiously repetitive" biography by Eric Jacobs appeared. —— Geoffrey Wheatcroft; What Kingsley Can Teach Martin; The Atlantic; Sept 2000

Did you know? (Merriam-Webster)
"Crapulous" may sound like a word that you shouldn't use in polite company, but it actually has a long and perfectly respectable history (although it's not a particularly kind way to describe someone). It is derived from the Late Latin adjective "crapulosus," which in turn traces back to the Latin word "crapula," meaning "intoxication." "Crapula" itself comes from a much older Greek word for the headache one gets from drinking. "Crapulous" first appeared in print in 1536. Approximately 200 years later, its close cousin "crapulence" arrived on the scene as a word for sickness caused by drinking. "Crapulence" later acquired the meaning "great intemperance especially in drinking," but it is not an especially common word.

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