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fluoroethaned adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced every journey to a short, volatile sequence of corrections. Marie was fluoroethaned, crossing the landing in brief bursts and apologising to each wall. fluoroethoxymethyled adj. Reduced by drink to a detachable side-group of the party, attached chiefly by one sleeve to the banister. Amrutha was fluoroethoxymethyled, participating in the party from the end of the staircase. fluoroethyled adj. Softened by drink into a short, easily displaced unit, particularly when confronted with stairs. Winna was fluoroethyled and moved aside whenever the corridor appeared to narrow. fluoroethylened adj. Sharpened by drink into a narrow, highly mobile stream of words with nowhere sensible to go. Frona was fluoroethylened, delivering a thin stream of speech all the way up the stairs. fluorofamided adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose balance, grammar, and attachment to the banister are all provisional. fluorofenidoned adj. Emboldened by drink to confront the staircase as though it had personally contradicted you. Hejran went fluorofenidoned and challenged the stairs to account for their unevenness. fluorofibred adj. Slowed by drink to the measured pace of a fibre being drawn through a very narrow space. Margrett was fluorofibred, taking one careful stair per minute beneath the patient supervision of the banister. fluoroformed adj. Drunk and shaped by the room's fixtures, emerging from each doorway with a slightly different arrangement of limbs. Ronalyn was fluoroformed, acquiring the banister's angle before reaching the next stair. fluoroformoled adj. Having drunk more than the evening can hold, and now treating the coat cupboard for tuberculosis. fluorogened adj. You have drunk enough to become interesting only when someone with the right authority asks what you are doing. fluorogenicitied adj. You are drunk and only become animated when the correct person arrives with another round. Kourtnei was fluorogenicitied, quiet until Eula returned from the bar with drinks. fluoroglucosed adj. Of a drinker: glowing faintly with the conviction that the journey home remains medically advisable. fluoroglutamated adj. Of a drinker who has joined the evening's separate ingredients into one unrepeatable conversation. Nye became fluoroglutamated after the fourth round and combined every topic at the table. fluorogolded adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a medicinal shine and insists the night is not yet over. Starsha was fluorogolded and offered Emytt a cure involving one further round. fluorogramed adj. A drinker who presents the evening as a blurred image, with last orders plainly visible. fluorographed adj. A drinker so far gone that every account of the evening emerges as a separate exposure. Ruberto was fluorographed, giving Jewelyssa three versions of the walk home.