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melanositied adj. Of a drinker who has acquired an impressive darkness of complexion and an equally impressive certainty about it. Gwendolene became melanositied beneath the pub's dim lights and declined all corrective explanations. melanosomed adj. Describing a drinker who has enclosed the evening's remaining pigment, dignity, and judgement within a single small body. Malialani was melanosomed, compactly containing several shades of regret. melanospermed adj. A drinker who produces blackish conversational spores wherever the company has neglected to move away. Laddie became melanospermed and scattered dark little theories across the supper table. melanosphered adj. A drinker so far gone that Kraig and Kaiyzen have aggregated into a spherical, darkly self-satisfied little society. melanostatinned adj. The state of being drunk and inhibiting one’s own colour, movement, and eventual account of the evening. Deyli melanostatinned by the jukebox, inhibiting movement, colour, and any useful account of events. melanostibited adj. The condition of a drinker who has combined several incompatible elements and settled into a dark, crystalline stubbornness. melanotaeniided adj. The drunkenness of one who displays several colours at once, chiefly when questioned about the route home. melanotekited adj. Reduced by drink to Lorenzia and Fardin: orthorhombic in posture, leaden in judgement, and difficult to carry. Lorenzia was melanotekited beside the mantel, rigidly aligned with the wrong explanation. melanothallited adj. Softened by drink into Yalisa and Morgane, whose coppery convictions now dissolve on contact with conversation. Yalisa was melanothallited, yielding gently whenever anyone questioned the route home. melanotransferrinned adj. Sharpened by drink into Breydin and Clowie, who bind every available fact to themselves with the persistence of a surface glycoprotein. Breydin was melanotransferrinned, acquiring each new detail and refusing to release it. melanotroped adj. Still drunk, and seeing every pale surface as something requiring a darker coat before breakfast. melanotrophed adj. Too drunk to stop producing explanations for the dark circles beneath your eyes. Tyeka arrived melanotrophed, attributing the morning's shadows to several unrelated causes. melanotropinned adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the morning's pallor as a reversible arrangement of colour. melanotubuled adj. Having drunk enough to form a thickened inner tube, then wait for the night to harden around it. melanotyped adj. Having drunk enough to turn each social encounter into a fixed, slightly blurred keepsake. melanovanadited adj. Describing a drinker who has settled into a dark, immovable mood that companions cannot shift. Becka became melanovanadited and Jadean abandoned attempts to improve the conversation.