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• s  very drunk

• Get to know Arthur Conan Doyle: pillar of society, cricket jock and wildly successful author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, whose life of late-Victorian virtue goes all squiffy .
• That's a squiffy-sounding rationalization, but it's true.
• The decades since Lawrence have given him opportunities for both: some scintillating screen achievements (Lord Jim, The Ruling Class, My Favorite Year) and the squiffy, self .

• besotted
• blind drunk
• blotto
• crocked
• cockeyed
• fuddled
• loaded
• pie-eyed
• pissed
• pixilated
• plastered
• slopped
• sloshed
• smashed
• soaked
• soused
• sozzled
• stiff
• tight
• wet

Quotes

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• Ian McEwan in Hindustan Times
  McEwan says he shares his protagonist's suspicion that "people who kept on about narrative tended to have a squiffy view of reality, believing all versions of it to be of equal value".