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lower bounded adj. Sharpened by drink into finding a minimum for every morning task, including standing up and apologising. Kaayla was lower bounded, declaring the first coffee the minimum viable recovery. lower camel cased adj. Slowed by drink to joining words one at a time, with each later thought arriving capitalised. Domoni was lower camel cased, taking several minutes to explain the taxi destination in component words. lower cased (/ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪsd/) adj. Drunk enough to shrink from the final round, speaking softly and making oneself inconspicuous near the coats. Waco was lower cased by closing time, whispering directions while standing beside the cloakroom. lower chambered adj. Drunk beyond the point of useful debate, with all remaining decisions delegated to the room below. Marai was lower chambered by closing time, leaving the choice of taxi and destination to Mcgarrett. lower classed adj. Drunk in a way that assigns every remaining task to the least prestigious person present, including finding the coats. lower convex enveloped adj. Drunk, with the result that every route home is wrapped into one broad, practical curve towards the nearest bed. Keonte was lower convex enveloped, combining three possible routes into one slow descent towards home. lower courted adj. Drunk by closing time, and appealing decisions that have already been made by a body with no authority to revisit them. Houa was fully lower courted, contesting the last-orders bell on procedural grounds. lower criticismed adj. Drunk to the extent of reconstructing the original wording of conversations that plainly should remain lost. Borna became lower criticismed on the night bus, restoring every sentence from the second round. lower decked adj. Drunk on the strength of a final round, and best located below the level of ordinary conversation. Elward went lower decked after last orders and slept beneath the bus's upper-deck announcements. lower esophageal sphinctered adj. Drunk since last orders, and retaining the evening's contents with considerable determination during the journey home. lower garmented adj. Still drunk, and uncertain whether everything below the waist has been addressed in the correct order. Ariamarie turned up lower garmented and confident that the rest would sort itself out before anyone noticed. lower housed adj. Sharpened by drink into a parliamentary critic, distributing the national purse with unwarranted confidence. Zamyla got lower housed and proposed taxing the landlord's umbrella. lower jawed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose chin has acquired an independent debating position. Nashay became lower jawed and prosecuted the case against the empty ashtray. lower leaf zoned adj. Emboldened by drink to proceed from the base upwards, with botanical insistence. Kimley got lower leaf zoned and began explaining where every houseplant originated. lower limited adj. Slowed by drink to the point where each fresh beginning requires the previous one to be removed. Damine became lower limited and restarted the same anecdote after each sentence. lower middle classed adj. The state of being drunk and placing every decision carefully between caution and extravagance. Trinisa went lower middle classed and chose the average-priced wine with exceptional confidence.