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backward complimented adj. Softened by drink into praising someone in terms that require an immediate and careful apology. Waiaria went backward complimented, admiring the landlord’s youthful appearance for all the wrong reasons. backward designed adj. Having drunk enough to plan the evening from its intended conclusion, beginning with the kebab. Jefford got backward designed and worked out the first round from the required breakfast. backward dived adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with facing the water correctly on departure. Jermond went backward dived from the bench, landing among the coats with unexpected dignity. backward inductioned adj. Drunk to the point where every decision is reasoned from its inevitable conclusion backwards, arriving at now as the optimal starting position. Asadbek went backward inductioned and explained, calmly, exactly how the evening had been always going to end this way. backward integrationed adj. You are drunk and have acquired the supplier, the stockist and no sensible reason for either. Paule went backward integrationed and attempted to purchase the off-licence after ordering a packet of crisps. backward linkaged adj. Of a drinker: improving the fortunes of an earlier round by ordering another for its sake. Dhanvi became backward linkaged, insisting the first pint deserved a companion from the same brewery. backward maskinged adj. Of a drinker who has hidden the next sentence behind the previous one and expects it to be heard. Amy-lynn was backward maskinged, murmuring the punchline beneath the beginning of the story. backward passed adj. Describing a drinker who hands every responsibility behind them rather than carrying it forward. Zahriya went backward passed and sent the unanswered text back to the person who had written it. backward pawned adj. A drinker who cannot advance without being threatened by the consequences of another round. backward rationalizationed adj. Loosened by drink into inventing a respectable reason for each decision only after making it. Jaes went backward rationalizationed and justified the fourth round by its educational value. backward slashed adj. Drunk to a degree that every explanation proceeds in the wrong direction, then ends at the lavatory. Nahomi got lost in a backward slashed account of the evening and blamed the punctuation. backward time machined adj. Too drunk to travel anywhere except into earlier portions of the same evening. Elsia became backward time machined and retold the toast as though it had not happened. backward-lookingnessed adj. Drunk on the strength of memories that improve chiefly when the present requires a chair. Ryuichi grew backward-lookingnessed and praised every former pub as a lost civilisation. backwardationed (/bækwəˈdeɪʃn̩d/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and worth less in the future than at immediate delivery. Tyrea was backwardationed, commanding attention now but scarcely promising by breakfast. backwarded (/ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)dd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and mentally located behind the conversation. Joyce went backwarded and answered a question that had been asked two pints earlier. backwardismed adj. Drunk by the third round, and proceeding against progress with admirable consistency. Ihor grew backwardismed and attempted to return a conversation to its opening sentence.