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mental patiented adj. You are drunk and requiring admission to the quietest available corner before attempting the stairs. Tanyra was mental patiented by last orders and was settled beside the cloakroom. mental protuberanced adj. Of a drinker: chin first, advancing through the coats as though the journey home were geological. Jeffary went mental protuberanced through the cloakroom, locating his coat by impact. mental reservationed adj. Of a drinker who has held back the essential clause explaining why another round is necessary. Saquan was mental reservationed, omitting the part about already having paid the taxi fare. mental retardationed adj. Describing a drinker who needs the journey home broken into smaller, more manageable decisions. mental-health cared adj. Drunk to a degree that calls for prevention, treatment and management before last orders. Erminio was mental-health cared before the final round could produce another ambitious decision. mentalcelled adj. A drinker so far gone that every failed attempt at conversation becomes a private theory of rejection. Saalih was mentalcelled, converting every failed conversation into a private theory of rejection. mentalesed (/ˌmɛnt(ə)lˈiːzd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who communicates the route home without producing a usable word. Corman was mentalesed, indicating the night bus through increasingly abstract hand movements. mentalisationed adj. Still drunk, and attributing elaborate inner lives to people whose only observable act is leaving the room. Michaeldavid grew mentalisationed and supplied motives for everyone who declined another drink. mentalised (/mɛnˈteɪ.lɪsd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who leads with the chin, raises the lower lip and refuses the sensible coat. mentalismed adj. Reduced by drink to believing that the last bus exists because you are aware of it. mentalisted adj. Softened by drink into a performer of impossible readings concerning coats, rounds and the journey home. mentalitied (/mɛnˈtælətid/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and committed to a system of beliefs which no evidence has been invited to disturb. Alando became mentalitied and defended his position on umbrellas with unusual doctrinal firmness. mentalizationed adj. Too drunk to distinguish another person's intentions from the behaviour by which they are, supposedly, inferred. mentalizinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to infer a complete mental state from the manner in which someone has put down a glass. mentalled (/ˈmɛn.təld/) adj. Drunk to the point where the mind has become an unreliable account of the body's position. Shyreeta was mentalled and reached for the banister several inches away from it. mentasticsed adj. Having drunk enough to perform deliberate movements with the solemn concentration of a practitioner under observation. Ethen became mentasticsed and crossed the lounge with an attentiveness normally reserved for rehabilitation.