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mid-careered adj. A drinker so far gone that a minor compliment prompts a complete change of direction. Misgana got mid-careered and announced a new profession between the bar and the lavatory. mid-century moderned adj. Reduced by drink to clean lines, spare surfaces and a marked hostility to ornament. Leaser was mid-century moderned, removing cushions until the sofa achieved ideological purity. mid-dayed adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake midnight for noon and request a midday meal from the fridge. mid-domain effected adj. Softened by drink into believing that every population, argument and buffet reaches its maximum in the middle. mid-dotted adj. A drinker who separates each word with a pause of uncertain length. Velois was mid-dotted, placing a careful silence between every syllable. mid-drifted adj. Sharpened by drink into correcting the anatomy of strangers with misplaced lexical confidence. mid-falled adj. Loosened by drink into treating autumn as a location rather than a season. mid-fingered adj. The state of being drunk and relying on one centrally positioned digit to complete every argument. mid-ironned adj. Slowed by drink to a loftier, less practical trajectory than the driver originally intended. Hurley was mid-ironned, sending the conversation gently upwards and nowhere near its destination. mid-kilned adj. Drunk to the point where one has become warm, central and unsuitable for handling. Muirne was mid-kilned, radiating heat while refusing to explain the colour of the walls. mid-life crisised adj. Drunk past the point of accepting the present arrangement, and now pricing motorcycles. Walfrid was mid-life crisised, comparing sports cars on a borrowed telephone. mid-lifered adj. Drunk to a degree that gives the morning-after person the settled uncertainty of someone exactly halfway through life. Raelei arrived mid-lifered, reflective about the party and unwilling to discuss its remaining half. mid-mashied adj. Drunk in a way that sends every modest proposition on a dated, lofted route towards the green. mid-morninged adj. Drunk beyond treating the middle of the morning as too early for a consequential purchase. Wasim became mid-morninged and ordered patio furniture for a rented flat. mid-nightmared adj. Drunk, with the result that the darkest portion of the evening appears to have no scheduled conclusion. Evaggelia was mid-nightmared, staring at the coat stand as though it had issued a threat. mid-ocean ridged adj. Drunk to a degree that raises a long, submarine swell through the middle of every conversation.