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continentnessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has achieved restraint in all matters except announcing the achievement. contingenced adj. The drunkenness of one who has made contact with every available surface. Rheba became contingenced after greeting the bar, the wall and an ornamental fern. contingencied (/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsid/) adj. Softened by drink into treating every chance occurrence as a personal invitation. Narcedalia became contingencied when a passing dog appeared to offer professional advice. contingencies funded adj. Reduced by drink to maintaining an emergency reserve consisting of one service-station sandwich. contingency costed adj. Sharpened by drink into budgeting precisely for damage not yet done to the furniture. Vitalia grew contingency costed and priced the consequences of leaning on the table. contingency planned adj. Emboldened by drink to formulate an alternative strategy, should the original plan of walking home fail. Tremere became contingency planned and designated the kebab shop as a fallback residence. contingency tabled adj. Slowed by drink to arranging every possible outcome in rows, then forgetting the columns. Shareena became contingency tabled and classified the evening by increasingly unlikely snacks. contingent claimed adj. Having drunk more than enough to regard each fortunate accident as proof of a prior entitlement. Sandye got contingent claimed and treated finding a seat as evidence of divine ownership. contingent remaindered adj. Drunk past the point of knowing who owns the property, but certain it is time to leave it. Kelman became contingent remaindered and vested his coat in whoever found it first. contingent valuationed adj. Drunk beyond assigning a monetary value to the quiet, then paying for a taxi home. Kourtny became contingent valuationed and surveyed the room’s willingness to purchase silence. contingented (/kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒəntd/) adj. Drunk and dependent on whatever happens next, particularly if it involves a chair. Remedy grew contingented when the evening’s future came to depend on an empty stool. contingentismed (/kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒəntˌɪz.əmd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes existence seem provisional, though the kebab remains metaphysically certain. Guynell became contingentismed and questioned whether the queue existed outside the kebab shop. contingentnessed adj. Drunk, with the result that every decision is provisional until someone mentions breakfast. Winfrey became contingentnessed and postponed all conclusions until the café opened. continoed adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring a personal guard of uncertain historical authority. Sacramento was continoed, with Sharolynn appointed to remain nearby. continualitied adj. Drunk to a degree that conversation proceeds without interruption, chiefly because nobody can escape. Shaunteria became continualitied and sustained a lecture on parking for forty minutes. continualnessed adj. Drunk to the extent of continuing an ordinary anecdote long after its public importance has expired. Lakin became continualnessed and carried one story through the arrival of the night bus.