drunk

“Hold your tongue, you fool!—what should you know about it?—why, you were drunk!”

“I’ve seen many a drunk chap in my time,” he said, “but never anyone so cryin’ drunk as that cove.

“He was an uncommon drunk sort o’ man,” he said.

He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.