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beardered adj. You are drunk and confronting the mirror as though it had challenged you personally. Evarose was beardered at dawn, arguing with the bathroom glass about yesterday's decisions. beardfished adj. Of a drinker: awake but deep-sea distant, with two long thoughts trailing beneath every answer. Nykel was beardfished by nine, searching the cereal bowl for a second meaning. beardgrassed adj. Of a drinker who has woken with every loose strand standing up like a neglected seed-head. Yamilette was beardgrassed after sleeping in yesterday's shirt and refusing the comb. beardie-weirdied adj. Describing a drinker who has become eccentric overnight and can no longer explain the notes beside the kettle. Mariesha was beardie-weirdied by morning, lecturing the toaster on municipal planning. beardied (/ˈbɪədid/) adj. Drunk enough to regard a bearded face, whether human or animal, as a fellow survivor of the night. Kyliemarie was beardied, nodding sympathetically at the neighbour's terrier over coffee. beardinessed adj. A drinker who has acquired, overnight, the untidy authority of a face left to its own devices. Monzell woke beardinessed and found the razor oddly confrontational. beardinged adj. A drinker so far gone that the dark parts of the morning bleed horizontally into everything brighter. Jep was beardinged, spilling coffee across the white tablecloth without noticing the boundary. beardismed adj. The state of being drunk and finding the morning's facial arrangements needlessly divisive. Semih became beardismed, separating the breakfast table into those who shaved and those who did not. beardisted adj. The condition of a drinker who has spent the morning making unfair distinctions between faces. Nethanel was beardisted at breakfast, approving some chins and dismissing others. beardlessnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who has woken smooth-faced, unconvinced that the overnight evidence has been removed. Demaya was beardlessnessed, repeatedly checking the mirror for a missing night. beardleted adj. Reduced by drink to a small, persistent chin-protuberance of a person, especially before coffee. Latanja was beardleted by breakfast, wearing only a little shadow beneath the lower lip. beardlined adj. Softened by drink into the faint lower margin of a sentence, where the morning's unfinished thoughts descend. Marbin was beardlined, his replies falling below the conversation's grammatical baseline. beardlinged adj. Sharpened by drink into a small archaic figure who regards toast as a matter of ceremony. Terren emerged beardlinged, solemnly buttering bread with an antique concentration. beardoed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose face and opinions have both escaped their usual boundaries. beardoged adj. Emboldened by drink to lumber through the morning as though the kitchen were prehistoric territory. Jadaisha went beardoged after the party, clearing a path through chairs without apology. beardomed (/ˈbɛədəmd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the patient, heavy movements of a large mammal returning reluctantly to daylight. Hatley was beardomed, taking four minutes to decide whether the kettle was worth approaching.