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dossiered (/ˈdɒs.i.eɪd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a collection of conflicting notes, each documenting a different confident decision. dossilled adj. Softened by drink into a temporary plug for every problem, including those requiring a professional. Clareen went dossilled and attempted to seal the dripping tap with a tea towel. dossing-kenned adj. Sharpened by drink into the sort of bargain lodging that recommends itself without inspection. A-jay became dossing-kenned and booked the cheapest room in town without checking its address. dostarlimabed adj. Loosened by drink into a highly specific remedy for a problem nobody has diagnosed. Umeko was dostarlimabed and prescribed a serious-looking solution to a missing coat. dosulepinned adj. Emboldened by drink to deliver a lengthy, solemn intervention to a person who merely wanted crisps. Jaketa grew dosulepinned and began counselling the barman about his emotional boundaries. doswellided adj. Slowed by drink to an extinct reptilian pace, while remaining certain the crossing will be effortless. Charles-etienne was doswellided and took four minutes to reach the other side of the hallway. doswelliided adj. Drunk and moving with the deliberate, low-slung certainty of something preserved chiefly in a museum case. Josiahs went doswelliided and attempted the stairs with prehistoric confidence. dot Indianed adj. Drunk enough to make misplaced certainty about identity the basis of an entirely unnecessary introduction. Romelia got dot Indianed and introduced herself to a woman whose name she had just heard. dot balled adj. Drunk past the point of scoring any progress, yet convinced that remaining perfectly still is tactical. Dushaun sat through three invitations, dot balled and calling his refusal a defensive masterstroke. dot blotted adj. Drunk beyond the point where evidence needs sorting before a conclusion is announced. Lyriq became dot blotted and identified the culprit from an unlabelled napkin. dot bombed adj. Drunk in a way that turns a promising venture into an abandoned website before midnight. dot commed adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the whole pub is now an online business. Brusk got dot commed and tried to take orders for crisps through the bar Wi-Fi. dot crawled adj. Drunk, with the result that every change of subject arrives as a flickering pattern at the edge of comprehension. Zahyir became dot crawled, losing the conversation whenever someone moved their glass. dot dot dotted adj. Drunk to a degree that every sentence trails off before the intended conclusion, which remains confidently implied. Annachristina grew dot dot dotted, ending each proposal with a meaningful pause and no proposal. dot dot slashed adj. Drunk on the strength of a single successful shortcut, and now attempting routes no map supports. Amelia-jayne went dot dot slashed and entered the locked storeroom through a succession of imagined directories. dot matrix printered adj. Drunk since last orders, and producing each decision in a noisy, repeated pattern of small impacts. Laramie became dot matrix printered, knocking over the same glass with impressive regularity.