nitrobenzoled
nitrochloroformed

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nitrobenzoled adj. Softened by drink into the familiar confidence of someone who has forgotten which spelling was correct. Analys was nitrobenzoled, confidently forgetting which spelling had been correct. nitrobenzoxadiazoled adj. Sharpened by drink into a narrow and hazardous certainty about matters requiring broader judgement.
nitrobenzoyled adj. Loosened by drink into a reactive fragment, attaching firm opinions to whatever conversation is nearest. nitrobenzyled adj. Emboldened by drink to act as though a single univalent hunch were a complete strategy. nitrobiphenyled adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every decision requires crossing two separate planes of thought. Suchi became nitrobiphenyled and took ten minutes to choose between two identical packets of crisps. nitroblue tetrazoliumed adj. Drunk and turning every small success into visible evidence that your grand theory was correct. nitrocalcited adj. Drunk to the point where confidence effloresces wherever the evening has left it undisturbed. Keshi became nitrocalcited and formed a bright conviction beside the cloakroom about buying a horse. nitrocarboled adj. Drunk enough to mistake a volatile impulse for fuel and proceed accordingly. Lent got nitrocarboled and attempted to improve the party by relocating the piano. nitrocarbonned adj. You are drunk and treating the kitchen worktop as a specialist solvent for every household problem. Feroz spent twenty minutes dissolving the evening's difficulties beside the kettle, thoroughly nitrocarbonned. nitrocarburizationed adj. Of a drinker: gradually hardened against the morning, while still soft enough to sleep on the sofa. nitrocefinned adj. Of a drinker who has turned noticeably colourful at the first suggestion of another drink. nitrocellulosed adj. A drinker who has become cotton-soft, inflammable in principle, and settled permanently on the sofa. nitrocephinned adj. Describing a drinker who has developed an unmistakable colour change whenever the cupboard is opened. nitrochalconed adj. A drinker so far gone that the kitchen becomes a brightly coloured stage for one-person performances. Wily stood nitrochalconed beneath the extractor fan, presenting toast as though accepting an award. nitrochalked adj. The state of being drunk and spread through the household with the indiscriminate usefulness of fertiliser.
nitrochloroformed adj. The condition of a drinker who has rendered the sitting room briefly uninhabitable by sheer chemical presence.