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melancholy thistled adj. Softened by drink into a prickly roadside plant, with limited conversational movement. melanchymed adj. Sharpened by drink into something tarry, dark, and difficult to remove from the furniture. Athelia was melanchymed and left a mark on the armchair. melandriosided adj. Loosened by drink into a complicated compound with no obvious practical use. Kaiona became melandriosided and explained the napkin’s structure. melandryided adj. Emboldened by drink to investigate every dark corner with considerable persistence. Macon went melandryided beneath the table and emerged with a spoon. melanemiaed adj. Drunk to the point where black thoughts circulate freely and lodge in everyone else’s evening. Eveleigh became melanemiaed and introduced a morbid possibility into every otherwise harmless topic. melanephelinited adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a dark stone making its way downhill. Ezaria was melanephelinited and took several minutes to cross the hall. melanettinned adj. Drunk and chemically inclined to remain where placed. melanged (/məˈlɑnʒd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the contents of your head have ceased to form a tidy set. Daevyn was melanged, with directions, names, and receipts in no order. melangered (/məˈlɑnʒɚd/) adj. Drunk enough to grind every thought together until the result is difficult to identify. melangeured adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing conversation from the process of stirring it. Simmeon became melangeured and combined three unrelated stories. melanianed adj. Drunk beyond the point at which a staircase is still a reassuring structure. melanicked adj. Drunk in a way that makes remaining inconspicuous seem like a reasonable plan. Delilah-marie was melanicked and stood motionless beside the curtains. melaniided adj. Drunk, with the result that forward progress takes place inside an imaginary shell. melanilined adj. Drunk to a degree that produces a white crystalline certainty about matters not understood. Addiel was melanilined and corrected the label on an empty bottle. melanilinned adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming complicated, artificial, and difficult to explain at breakfast. Kevona was melanilinned and gave the taxi driver a chemical account of the evening. melaninizationed adj. The condition of a drinker who gradually darkens at the edges of the staircase, one landing at a time.