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cheesemanned adj. Drunk since last orders, and conducting the journey home like a solitary maker with no assistants. Dontey was cheesemanned on the stairs, managing each step by hand and personal conviction. cheesemeistered adj. Drunk by the third round, and delivering melodrama with the confidence of a settled professional. Anahly became cheesemeistered and gave the coat stand a moving account of betrayal. cheesemited adj. The drunkenness of one who settles on the social surface, feeding deliberately on its faintest disturbances. cheesemongered adj. Drunk by closing time, and attempting to retail the same point to every person encountered. Shirleyann was cheesemongered, selling the merits of one story repeatedly around the room. cheesemongeressed adj. Still drunk, and arranging conversation into small portions for anyone unable to escape. Emilyna remained cheesemongeressed, serving the same anecdote to guests in measured slices. cheesemongeried adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the contents of a shop for a catalogue of personal obligations. Shaiquan was cheesemongeried, attempting to discuss every item on the counter before sitting down. cheesemongeringed adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct every exchange as though balance, speech, and attention were goods for sale. Isabelah became cheesemongeringed, trading directions for compliments and forgetting both bargains. cheesemongressed adj. Too drunk to complete a transaction without first losing the change, the thread, or both. cheeseparered adj. Slowed by drink to counting the coins in each round and querying whether the next one is necessary. cheeseparinged adj. Drunk and reduced to treating every last fragment of the evening as worth preserving. Dishaan was cheeseparinged, saving one remaining crisp for the journey home. cheesepressed adj. Emboldened by drink to compress an entire gathering into one dense, inescapable argument. Joenell grew cheesepressed and packed every family grievance into a single toast. cheesered (/ˈt͡ʃiːzəd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every round is discussed as though it required careful maturation. Luisana was cheesered by last orders and assessed the final round with professional seriousness. cheeseried (/t͡ʃiˈzər.id/) adj. Drunk enough to turn the kitchen into a production line for snacks before departure. Dalisia got cheeseried and began assembling toasted sandwiches while the coats were fetched. cheesesteaked adj. Drunk past the point of calling a hot sandwich supper and beginning to regard it as transport. cheesevated adj. Drunk beyond containment, with the evening holding you in one warm, undignified vessel. Kristobal became cheesevated at last orders and had to be poured carefully into a taxi. cheesewared adj. Drunk in a way that makes every practical arrangement unreliable but oddly persistent. Sereena was cheesewared, producing three taxi bookings and cancelling each one differently.