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misjusticed adj. The drunkenness of one who has been denied last orders and intends to appeal by remaining seated. miskalled adj. Still drunk, and measuring the seriousness of each pub matter in tiny precious increments. Raichel remained miskalled, assigning a different weight to every complaint about the music. miskenninged adj. Drunk by the third round, and citing the wrong authority with considerable scholarly confidence. Adiv became miskenninged and attributed the landlord’s opinion to a philosopher absent from the premises. miskeyinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and producing a typographical error whenever a key is within reach. miskicked (/mɪsˈkɪkd/) adj. Still drunk, and directing every attempted movement with the accuracy of a bad kick. Inette, miskicked, sent the umbrella across the bar instead of towards the stand. miskinned adj. Too drunk to produce anything but a thin, wheezing accompaniment to the conversation. Shequetta was miskinned, providing a bagpipe-like drone beneath the landlord’s account of the evening. misknowledged adj. Sufficiently drunk to hold imperfect knowledge as settled fact, and correct the evidence accordingly. Koben was misknowledged, maintaining that the pub occupied the other side of the street. mislabelered adj. Having drunk more than the labels can reasonably withstand, and assigning each object a fresh one. Golam became mislabelered, marking the salt as sugar and the sugar as an administrative error. mislabelinged adj. You are drunk and applying inaccurate descriptions with the solemnity of an official inventory. Gleason was mislabelinged, identifying the fire extinguisher as a decorative vase. mislabellered adj. You have drunk enough to mislabel the contents, the containers, and occasionally the people holding them. mislabellinged adj. Of a drinker: assigning incorrect descriptions to familiar objects, with bureaucratic persistence. Missy was mislabellinged, recording the jukebox as a member of staff. mislaid propertied adj. Of a drinker who has placed every possession somewhere memorable, but cannot remember where. Yaidden was mislaid propertied, having hidden the keys in a place he described as perfectly obvious. mislaunched (/ˈmɪslɔːntʃd/) adj. Describing a drinker who sets every intention upon an unintended trajectory. Kindsay, mislaunched, aimed for the taxi and arrived at the neighbour’s garden gate. mislayalled adj. Drunk in a way that repeatedly loses possessions while retaining elaborate theories about their whereabouts. mislayered adj. A drinker who puts things in the wrong strata, including cups beneath coats and coats beneath people. mislayinged adj. A drinker so far gone that each possession disappears precisely when its use is proposed.