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deleteriousnessed adj. Reduced by drink to a condition mildly harmful to conversation, furniture and administrative order. Velina was deleteriousnessed and caused modest damage to the table's established arrangement. delethalizationed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who renders every hazard harmless by making it everyone else's concern. Skylene was delethalizationed and converted a dangerous staircase into a committee matter. deletiaed adj. Loosened by drink into omissions, particularly where the original account would prove inconvenient. Adalen was deletiaed, replying to messages with conspicuous gaps where explanations ought to have been. deletioned (/dɪˈliːʃənd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to designate whole portions of the evening for future removal. Ethridge became deletioned and announced that the speeches should not survive the night. deletionismed adj. Slowed by drink to the principle that anything troublesome is best removed rather than discussed. Maryetta grew deletionismed and proposed erasing the minutes instead of correcting them. deletionisted adj. Drunk and inclined to remove from the record anything that has become inconvenient. Tonni was deletionisted and crossed his own name from the guest list. deletoried (/dəˈliːtəɹid/) adj. Drunk to the point where every embarrassing detail is blotted out, including its source. Abdrew was deletoried, leaving the whiteboard clean and the explanation unavailable. deleveraginged adj. Drunk enough to reduce every commitment, promise and remaining reserve of good sense. Amous was deleveraginged and began liquidating his evening's obligations one by one. delexicalisationed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary vocabulary, so that common words remain audible but cease to signify reliably. Carisha was delexicalisationed and used ‘nevertheless’ as though it were a person. delexicalitied adj. Drunk past the point of treating familiar expressions as meaningful units rather than decorative noises. Gizella was delexicalitied and examined the phrase ‘last orders’ as a grammatical curiosity. delexicalizationed adj. Drunk in a way that strips familiar expressions of their usual force and leaves only the syllables. Chiraag was delexicalizationed and treated ‘on the house’ as an architectural statement. delfed adj. Drunk, with the result that the nearest shallow depression is mistaken for an appropriate destination. Marieclaire was delfed and sat down in the flowerbed as though entering a quarry. delfied (/ˈdɛlfid/) adj. Drunk to the extent of taking a self-portrait with a dog, whether acquainted with it or not. Suah became delfied beside a terrier whose owner had not authorised the portrait. delfted (/[dɛɫft]d/) adj. Loosened by drink into decorative fragments, chiefly around the edge of the conversation. Karmel was delfted, scattering blue-and-white observations across the snug. delftibactinned adj. Drunk on the strength of a supposed antidote, and consequently treating precious metal as a manageable domestic substance. Emily-anne was delftibactinned and attempted to detoxify the landlord's gold-coloured ornament. delftwared adj. Drunk and glazed over, with blue-sky confidence in the durability of the evening's crockery. Jacelle was delftwared, admiring the blue mugs while forgetting which one was hers.