half-senseless

Updated: May 29, 2025

My husband, who had clearly been drinking, was looking at me with a half-senseless grin. His thin hair was a little disordered. His prominent front teeth showed hideously. I saw that he was trying to carry things off with an air. "This is an unexpected pleasure. I think it must be the first time . . . the very first time that. . . ."

Sir Hall Caine - The Woman Thou Gavest Me: Being the Story of Mary O'Neill