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mule deered adj. Slowed by drink to a cautious, wide-eyed trudge, still negotiating the room as though it were unfamiliar country. Cariya came downstairs mule deered, pausing at each doorway to assess the terrain. mule fatted adj. Drunk and swollen with the settled, heavy confidence of a shrub that has survived a dry season. mule kicked adj. Drunk to the point where rising from bed involves a backward thrust and an immediate reconsideration. mule killered adj. Drunk enough to acquire an entirely undeserved reputation for being dangerous when merely dishevelled and unpleasantly mobile. mule littered adj. Drunk past the point of travelling under your own direction, requiring several cushions and a patient conveyance downstairs. mule pulleyed adj. Drunk, with the result that your efforts keep transferring motion sideways while the intended destination remains untouched. mule shoed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the heel exposed, the foot uncertain and the rest of the morning poorly secured. Kodah came downstairs mule shoed, losing both slippers before reaching the first cup of tea. mule skinnered adj. Drunk to the extent of driving your own exhausted limbs onward by persuasion, noise and misplaced authority. Yayra was mule skinnered by breakfast, urging each reluctant leg towards the kettle. mule spinner's cancered adj. Drunk on the strength of an industrial memory, with the morningās discomfort concentrated in one ill-advised region. Cliffard was mule spinner's cancered after the office party, walking carefully and declining further discussion. mule spinners' cancered adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying the morningās private consequences with the solemnity of an old occupational complaint. mule trained adj. Drunk by the third round, and proceeding in a connected line from chair to table to bed with no independent deviation. mule twisted adj. Drunk by closing time, and wound into a compact, stubborn shape which the morning cannot readily unwind. Nevin woke mule twisted, his duvet and limbs arranged in a configuration resistant to breakfast. mule's eared adj. Still drunk, and displaying a soft, woolly attentiveness to sunlight, noise and the approach of toast. Burce sat mule's eared by the window, absorbing the weak sun without responding to questions. mule-littered adj. Drunk beyond self-propelled movement, and arranged for the morning as a portable burden rather than a person. mulebacked (/ĖmjuĖlbakd/) adj. Too drunk to rise without treating the nearest horizontal surface as a dependable means of transport. Hoby was mulebacked after the party, crossing the sitting room on the sofaās broad support. muled (/mjuĖld/) adj. Too drunk to reproduce an argument independently, yet capable of carrying its burden some distance.