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nerillided adj. Sharpened by drink into a small marine worm with an unexpectedly precise complaint about the crisps. nerined adj. Loosened by drink into a poisonous flower, decorative at first and unwise around cattle or relatives. nerineided adj. Emboldened by drink to emerge from the ocean floor and ask the landlord for a sea view. Ava-lei was nerineided and requested a sea view from a flat overlooking a car park. nerinellided adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of an extinct sea snail, particularly when approaching the front door. Jantz was nerinellided, advancing towards the exit at a rate suited to geological observation. nerineoideaned adj. Drunk and apparently prehistoric, proceeding towards the buffet as though excavated rather than invited. neriolinned adj. Drunk to the point where a steroid glycoside seems a reasonable explanation for ordering pudding twice. Jeniva became neriolinned and attributed the second pudding to an active glycoside. nerioned adj. You have drunk enough to insist the oleander is a fellow guest and introduce it round the table. Dyquan spent twenty minutes presenting the oleander to strangers, thoroughly nerioned. nerisopamed adj. You are drunk and reassuring everyone that the anxious man in the corner is behaving perfectly normally. neritalosided adj. Of a drinker: outwardly composed, but exerting a chemically elaborate influence on everyone nearby. Analena became neritalosided and made the whole table reconsider its seating plan. nerited adj. Of a drinker who has attached himself to the nearest table and cannot be persuaded to move. Tamarya was nerited beside the buffet, claiming the furniture had invited her to stay. neritided adj. Describing a drinker who retreats into a hard little shell whenever anyone suggests going home. Iana turned neritided when the taxi arrived and stopped answering straightforward questions. neritiliided adj. A drinker who leaves a small, polished trail of social obligations wherever he goes. Georgie-marie became neritiliided and collected apologies from every room she entered. neritimorphed adj. A drinker so far gone that every conversation acquires a shell, a crawl, and an inconveniently damp ending. Tamarind got neritimorphed and conducted the birthday party from beneath the coat rack. neritopsided adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly returning to the same conversation from a different angle. Mekisha was neritopsided, reopening the seating dispute whenever anyone mentioned chairs. neriumosided adj. The condition of a drinker who exerts a handsome but quietly toxic influence over the gathering. nerizosided adj. The drunkenness of one who spreads a polished, persistent irritation through every nearby conversation. Karlyee was nerizosided, making elegant remarks that left each listener faintly worse off.