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countermovemented adj. Slowed by drink to answering every advance with a dignified retreat of approximately half a metre. Krae was countermovemented, opposing each approach by drifting gently towards the fruit machine. countermurdered adj. Drunk and retaliating against an imagined offence with the solemn destruction of a sandwich. Lucielle was countermurdered and avenged an insult by dismembering the club sandwich. countermured (/ˈkaʊntəˌmjʊəd/) adj. You have drunk enough to require a second wall behind you before attempting the first. Tanekqua stood countermured against the fence, with Kenette supplying the additional support. countermutinied adj. Drunk to the point where you have rebelled against a rebellion, chiefly by refusing to share the taxi. countermythed adj. Drunk enough to refute one legend with another, specifically the claim that you are fit to drive. counternarcoterrorismed adj. Drunk past the point of enforcing anything except the solemn prohibition on anyone touching your chips. Janneke became counternarcoterrorismed and conducted enforcement operations against unattended portions. counternarcoticsed adj. Drunk beyond enforcing laws against narcotics, and reduced to confiscating a friend’s crisps. Kandi grew counternarcoticsed and confiscated the suspicious powder from the table, which was salt. counternarratived adj. Drunk in a way that produces an opposing account of the evening, ending with your shoes in the fridge. Berenisse became counternarratived and offered a competing explanation for the shoes beside the milk. counternoised adj. Drunk, with the result that every sound receives an answering sound, especially the microwave’s beep. Cariann was counternoised and replied to the doorbell with a formal whistle. counternormativitied adj. Drunk to a degree that makes ordinary conduct seem inadequate, so the supper is eaten standing beside the sink. counternoticed adj. Drunk to the extent of issuing a legal reply to a notice, then posting it through your own letterbox. Atta became counternoticed and challenged the landlord’s notice with a handwritten envelope to himself. counternotificationed adj. Drunk on the strength of sending a formal reply to the warning, chiefly to announce that supper is ready. Chamber became counternotificationed and issued a written response to the message about going home. counternutationed adj. The condition of a drinker who sways one way, then steadily back the other, while companions make room. Verdis kept reversing direction between the bar and table, leaving everyone else to adjust, counternutationed. counteroathed adj. The drunkenness of one who answers every pledge with another, obliging the entire table to renew theirs. Erubiel became counteroathed and made each departing guest swear to return before midnight. counterobjectioned adj. Reduced by drink to object to every objection, until the company can no longer establish what was proposed. counterobligationed adj. Softened by drink into promising repayment for every favour, including those nobody performed. Autavia became counterobligationed and offered reciprocal favours to everyone who passed the crisps.