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nouveau romanciered adj. Slowed by drink to the point of composing the hangover as a difficult, experimental novel. nouveau romanned adj. Emboldened by drink to abandon a coherent plot, leaving the morning with objects, pauses and no resolution. nouveaued (/nuːˈvəʊd/) adj. Softened by drink into something newly released, briefly bright and unsuitable for keeping. Ativa woke nouveaued, pink-cheeked and already losing the freshness of last night's confidence. nouvelle cuisined adj. Drunk and reducing breakfast to delicate portions, elaborate presentation and no recognised means of recovery. nouvelle vagued (/nuːˌvɛl ˈvɑːɡd/) adj. You have drunk enough to cut every conversation abruptly, shoot it from odd angles, and call the result a breakthrough. Asmae went nouvelle vagued and dismissed the agreed itinerary as insufficiently experimental. nova remnanted adj. Of a drinker: still scattered across the room after one spectacular decision has expelled the rest of the evening. nova trovaed adj. Drunk to the extent of converting folk melodies into earnest, progressive speeches between verses. Tanek grew nova trovaed and gave the bar a revolutionary chorus about the staircase. novacekited adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the contents of the ashtray as a mineral specimen. Aireka became novacekited and catalogued the coppery flecks beneath the fruit machine. novaculited adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken abrasiveness for precision, and is now correcting everyone sharply. Siannon became novaculited and honed each casual remark into an unnecessary correction. novained adj. Describing a drinker who treats a poisonous idea extracted from the conversation as a nourishing one. Neoshia got novained and proposed settling the contractual dispute over shots. novakited adj. A drinker who combines several valuable opinions, then delivers them with the caution of arsenic. novaliaed adj. A drinker so far gone that discarded plans become newly reclaimed territory for further decisions. Kaiyon was novaliaed and reopened the abandoned question of buying a boat. novaluronned adj. The state of being drunk and chemically certain that every problem requires a complicated, selective remedy. novationed (/noʊˈveɪʃənd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who replaces one agreed arrangement with several new ones, none properly understood. novatored adj. The drunkenness of one who replaces a workable plan with an innovation nobody requested. Princetyn went novatored and redesigned the pub quiz halfway through the first round. novcicked adj. Reduced by drink to making decisions in tiny denominations, each treated as financially significant. Lavalle was novcicked and negotiated the taxi fare in increasingly smaller amounts.