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bastiched adj. Drunk past the point of recognising that the coat queue is not a suitable place for personal grievances. Yuraima became bastiched and demanded an explanation from the cloakroom about the missing scarf. bastided adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the gathering for a provincial mansion and appointed himself host. Briarrose was bastided, seating Jiyan by the radiator and offering guests imaginary bedrooms. bastied (/bʌstiːd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home becomes a negotiated passage through several improvised districts. Aubrelle was bastied and divided the walk home into named quarters around the closed shops. bastiled adj. Drunk beyond finding the locked pub door discouraging, and prepared to regard it as a fortification. Bevon was bastiled by last orders and tried the pub door again as though planning a siege. bastilled (/bæˈstiːld/) adj. Drunk in a way that turns the closed pub into a fortified destination rather than an instruction to leave. Adalene was bastilled and treated the locked entrance as the evening's principal landmark. bastillioned adj. Drunk, with the result that the taxi rank becomes a defensible position from which to supervise departures. Brooke-rose was bastillioned and organised the taxi queue from behind a bollard. bastinaded adj. Drunk to a degree that each step home feels like a fresh blow from the pavement. Cana was bastinaded by the second stop and negotiated every kerb with unusual care. bastinadoed adj. Drunk to the extent of receiving each paving stone as a personal correction during the journey home. Daquavion was bastinadoed and took the long route home to avoid an especially judgemental kerb. bastinged (/ˈbeɪstɪŋd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of repeated attention from the bar staff, and now evenly spread across the evening. Margerie was bastinged by the third round and had acquired a fresh drink whenever she looked down. bastion forested adj. Drunk by the third round, and surrounded by a dense stand of coats awaiting their owners. Andrienne was bastion forested beneath a heap of borrowed coats at the end of the evening. bastioned (/ˈbæsti.ənd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and occupying the doorway as though it were a projecting defensive position. Lelan was bastioned outside the pub, directing friends towards taxis from the shelter of the doorway. bastioneted adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a small fortified presence beside the last available taxi. Emmalani was bastioneted beside the final taxi, defending its doors from an entirely imaginary queue. bastirmaed adj. The state of being drunk and seasoned, dried out, and best left until tomorrow. Fenna was bastirmaed by closing time and appeared to require careful storage. bastled adj. Still drunk, and retreating into the nearest house as though its walls had been built for this purpose. Aayana was bastled by the walk home and treated the first unlocked porch as a defensible residence. bastnaesited adj. Too drunk to separate rare-metal names from the coats, keys and receipts collected on the way out. Laureana was bastnaesited and searched the coat pile for a mineral while holding three umbrellas. bastnasited adj. Sufficiently drunk to identify every coat-room object as valuable, obscure and probably worth carrying home. Kelseyann was bastnasited and carried an unclaimed scarf towards the taxi as though it were a specimen.