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Lacking self-restraint at home, happy to imbibe endless wine
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incontinent
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Wikipedia
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Incontinent is the second album by Frank Tovey, better known as Fad Gadget , released in 1981. While developing the industrial sound of his debut Fireside Favourites in 1980, the new album relied less on drum machines and found objects , introducing more ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context often followed by of English) Unable to contain or retain. 2 Lacking the ability to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urination or defecation. 3 Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incontinent \In*con"ti*nent\, adv. [Cf. F. incontinent.] Incontinently; instantly; immediately. [Obs.] He says he will return incontinent. --Shak.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A person who is constipated may also be incontinent of faeces because there is leaking around the hard mass. ▪ And Clint Schneider had become doubly incontinent . ▪ Data from these two patients are included in the statistical ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "wanting in self restraint," from Old French incontinent , from Latin incontinentem (nominative incontinens ) "incontinent, immoderate, intemperate," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + continens (see continent ). Originally chiefly of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not having control over urination and defecation [ant: continent ]
Usage examples of incontinent.
Then will I incontinent with any, all, or whatsoever weapon he chooseth fall upon him and, for this felon stroke, for his ungentle dealing with the maid, I will forthwith gore, rend, tear, pierce, batter, bruise and otherwise use the body of the said Sir Agramore until, growing aweary of its vile tenement, his viler soul shall flee hence to consume evermore with such unholy knaves as he.
I stayed in the cheapest, where one electric bulb hung from a string in the middle of the room, where the sheets were like cheesecloth, and where the mattresses -- when they were revealed as they usually were after a night's restless sleep -- were like maps of strange worlds, the continents being defined by unpleasing stains, doubtless traceable to the incontinent dreams of travelling salesmen, or the rapturous deflowerings of brides from the backwoods.
There were impact-dispersing skullcaps for the clumsy, disposable looparound mouthpieces for the tongue gnashers, lockfast maxi-Pampers for the thrashing incontinent, and countless kinds of medication reminders that beeped and buzzed and chimed to remind the forgetful.
The harridan landladies of his past with their stewed cabbage, incontinent dogs and patched bedclothes inhabit a world far from London N.