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living newspapered adj. The state of being drunk and presenting current events theatrically, with facts arranged for a popular audience. Courtnay was living newspapered, delivering the football results between mouthfuls of crisps. living pictured adj. The condition of a drinker who has arranged the surrounding company into a tableau and forgotten to move. living proofed adj. The drunkenness of one who demonstrates, by remaining upright, that a questionable hypothesis can survive testing. living quartersed adj. Reduced by drink to occupying rooms rather than travelling between them, preferably the nearest available ones. living rocked adj. Drunk by the third round, and now treating the nearest wall as a monumental work requiring personal supervision. living room grouped adj. Sufficiently drunk to form an intimate circle at home and disclose matters better left ungrouped. living roomed (/ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːmd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting the solemn business of the household from beneath the coffee table. living sculptured adj. Having drunk enough to stand motionless among the houseplants, with botanical dignity and no evident purpose. Edie-rae grew living sculptured beside the ficus and accepted no invitations to move. living shielded adj. Having drunk more than the surrounding furniture, and now using one's body to protect a glass from harm. living spaced adj. You have drunk enough to regard the pavement as a settlement requiring careful territorial expansion. living standarded adj. Drunk to the extent of treating a chair, a warm room and crisps as a respectable domestic economy. living statued adj. Of a drinker: standing perfectly still in public, awaiting either applause or a taxi. living stoned adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a lump of masonry for a suitable place to contemplate eternity. living streeted adj. Describing a drinker who advances cautiously along the road, granting motor traffic the benefit of the doubt. living thinged adj. Drunk and treating every object in the room as a participant deserving acknowledgement. Esmea-rose was fully living thinged by midnight and had formally introduced two chairs and a lamp. living tissued adj. A drinker so far gone that every minor bodily sensation is announced as evidence of continued existence.