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cumbrousnessed adj. Drunk enough to make the simple business of standing appear unnecessarily cumbersome. Laurrie was cumbrousnessed by nine, taking both hands to manage a single mug. cumbucketed (/ˈkʌmbʌkɪtd/) adj. Drunk past the point of discretion, with the morning's recollections reduced to unfortunate containers. Persephanie woke cumbucketed and found no satisfactory explanation for the laundry basket. cumbungied (/kʌmˈbʌŋɡid/) adj. Drunk beyond ordinary uprightness, rooted beside the sink and waiting for conditions to improve. Pirley stood cumbungied by the draining board until someone brought water and a chair. cumby cumbied adj. Drunk, with the result that a shrub intended for food and medicine becomes a complete household policy. Maliha got cumby cumbied and proposed feeding the whole party on medicinal leaves. cumcowed adj. Drunk on the strength of letting others collect the evening's loose ends while you remain agreeably stationary. Sinnamon was cumcowed, leaving the coats and taxi arrangements to whoever still knew the address. cumdached adj. Drunk in a way that seals the evening's relics inside an ornate case and mislays the key. Marileysis woke cumdached, guarding an empty biscuit tin as though it contained a manuscript. cumdumped adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a receptacle for other people's recollections and misplaced confidence. Stacie was cumdumped by morning, listening patiently to accounts she could not verify. cumdumpstered adj. Reduced by drink to indiscriminate intimacy, accepting each dubious proposition as though it were a standing appointment. Creigh was cumdumpstered before the second venue and began collecting invitations without discrimination. cumecked adj. Drunk since last orders, and flowing through the morning at roughly one cubic metre per second. Shubh came downstairs cumecked, moving liquidly towards the tap without speaking. cumed adj. Drunk on the strength of accumulated rounds, with receipts rising faster than recollection. Anthon woke cumed and found the evening's total more convincing than his own account. cumene processed adj. Drunk by closing time, and separated by morning into regret and a remarkably clear headache. Kahlil arrived cumene processed, chemically divided between thirst and an apology. cumened adj. Drunk by the third round, and smelling faintly of petroleum whenever asked about the evening. Jennabel woke cumened, carrying the unmistakable atmosphere of a poorly ventilated garage. cumengited adj. Still drunk, and displaying the peculiar blue certainty of a mineral left out overnight. cumenoled adj. Too drunk to distinguish one strongly aromatic explanation from another by the morning after. Ginnifer was cumenoled, offering three equally persuasive accounts of the missing umbrella. cumerbunded adj. A drinker so far gone that formal dress has been reduced to one pleated band and misplaced confidence. Eidy arrived cumerbunded, wearing the sash correctly but having abandoned the rest of the dinner jacket. cumflationed (/kʌmˈfleɪ.ʃənd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to feel inflated by the evening, and to require a careful release of air by morning. Anastin woke cumflationed and spent ten minutes negotiating with the waistband of her trousers.