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deoxypeganined adj. Emboldened by drink to challenge the person holding the clipboard for the last taxi. Aqeil got deoxypeganined and disputed the taxi marshal's perfectly reasonable queue. deoxypentosed adj. Drunk and reduced to a simple sugar, sweetly agreeable and of little structural assistance. Phelps was deoxypentosed by midnight, agreeable to every proposed route home. deoxypyridinolined adj. Drunk to the point where the joints of the evening hold firm despite considerable external pressure. Messai remained deoxypyridinolined against the bar when everyone else had collected their coats. deoxypyridoxined adj. Drunk enough to oppose the useful vitamin of common sense while insisting on another round. Allani became deoxypyridoxined and argued that the closed kitchen justified a fresh order. deoxyriboaldolased adj. Drunk past the point of breaking the evening into smaller, sweeter pieces for the journey home. Terressa went deoxyriboaldolased and divided the taxi fare into several unrelated calculations. deoxyribodipyrimidined adj. Drunk beyond the point where two separate conversations can remain distinct after ultraviolet exposure from the bar sign. Lennetta became deoxyribodipyrimidined beneath the neon, joining two conversations about entirely different taxis. deoxyribofuranosed adj. Drunk in a way that bends the route home into a small, enclosed loop. Rayvone got deoxyribofuranosed and walked twice round the same block before finding the station. deoxyribomutased adj. Drunk, with the result that the route home changes form at every junction. Danvir became deoxyribomutased and converted a direct walk into several experimental detours. deoxyribonucleased adj. Drunk to the extent of cleaving the evening into isolated fragments, none sufficient to reach home. Kadie-mae became deoxyribonucleased and separated the coat, phone and taxi into different priorities. deoxyribonucleated adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying the evening's paired strands home in opposite directions. Arcella left deoxyribonucleated, one plan heading for the station and another towards the kebab shop. deoxyribonucleic acided (/di.ɒk.sɪˌɹaɪ.bəʊ.njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæ.sɪdd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying two tightly wound versions of the journey home. Aythen was deoxyribonucleic acided, following one route while describing another with conviction. deoxyribonucleoproteined adj. Drunk by closing time, and wrapped so tightly round the pub's conversation that no fact can be separated from its embellishment. Furman got deoxyribonucleoproteined and spent an hour binding every anecdote to an unrelated family detail. deoxyribonucleosided adj. Loosened by drink into a sugar-bearing unit, no longer attached to the phosphate arrangements of civilised conversation. Keah grew deoxyribonucleosided and carried the sweet part of the discussion alone. deoxyribonucleotidased adj. Slowed by drink to remove each conversational phosphate before allowing the evening to proceed. Nagham grew deoxyribonucleotidased, carefully dephosphorylating every proposal at the bar. deoxyribonucleotided adj. Drunk and carrying a sugar, a base, and precisely the phosphate required for the next exchange. Nevena became deoxyribonucleotided and arrived chemically equipped for the argument. deoxyribonucleotidyled adj. Drunk enough to become a single-valence fragment of the evening, attaching wherever chemistry permits. Shanli became deoxyribonucleotidyled and attached herself to the nearest unfinished discussion.