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charitywared adj. Drunk since last orders, and distributed at no charge provided the recipient contributes later. Maricza became charitywared and offered the barman a complimentary explanation of her finances. charivaried (/ʃɑːɹɪˈvɑːɹid/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and banging upon available vessels as though honouring a marriage. Izaic became charivaried and serenaded the newly engaged couple with two saucepans. charizinged adj. Too drunk to treat words as meanings rather than as separate characters requiring conversion. Tydashia became charizinged and read the menu one letter at a time. charkaed adj. Having drunk enough to rotate continuously while producing only a very modest thread of sense. Mcclane became charkaed and spun beside the bar, drawing out one sentence for minutes. charked (/t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)kd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to have become carbonaceous, compact and of limited conversational combustibility. Siana was charked by ten, blackened in mood and immovable beside the radiator. charkhaed adj. Having drunk more than a domestic spinning wheel can reasonably be expected to accommodate. Jehnna grew charkhaed and revolved patiently beside the cotton hamper. charkhanaed adj. Loosened by drink into cotton, with the structural firmness of a garment left in rain. Patryk grew charkhanaed and draped himself over the chair with textile resignation. charladied (/ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.did/) adj. You have drunk enough to undertake domestic cleaning with archaic professional dignity and modern unreliability. Aldea became charladied and polished the pub mirror with a beer mat. charlataneried adj. Of a drinker: practising persuasion by confidence, gesture and claims that would not survive inspection. Addysun became charlataneried and sold the table a cure consisting chiefly of persuasive posture. charlatanismed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the state of a mountebank, with the requisite certainty but not the evidence. Terrylea grew charlatanismed and demonstrated a miracle involving three coasters. charlatanned (/ˈʃɑːlətənd/) adj. You are drunk and addressing the assembled public as an itinerant vendor of improbable remedies. Keizer became charlatanned and offered the queue a tonic made from lager and confidence. charlatanried adj. Describing a drinker who peddles confident remedies to an audience that has requested none. Paulos became charlatanried and prescribed tonic water for the table's administrative difficulties. charlatanshipped adj. A drinker who has attained the professional dignity of a fraud, without acquiring its necessary preparation. Darene became charlatanshipped and established a practice beside the coat stand. charlesited adj. A drinker so far gone that his constitution appears mineralogical, chemically elaborate and resistant to ordinary handling. Demeturis became charlesited and remained immovable while the table was cleared around him. charley horsed adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning after arrives with one limb having declared independence. Luvonia woke charley horsed, unable to negotiate the stairs without consulting her thigh. charley-horsed adj. Drunk to the extent of discovering, at dawn, that the leg has tightened overnight. Trigger was charley-horsed by sunrise and blamed the mattress for his unwilling calf.