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plaintiffed (/ˈpleɪntɪfd/) adj. A drinker who approaches the morning after as an action for damages, with the duvet named as defendant. plaintiffshipped adj. The state of being drunk and formally responsible for bringing the morning's complaints before an indifferent household. plaintivenessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the morning after sound like a distant, sorrowful instrument. Aria-rose was plaintivenessed, describing the missing taxi with unnecessary musical sorrow. plainwared adj. The drunkenness of one who has been reduced by the morning after to undecorated, functional habits. Ranecia was plainwared, drinking water from a plain mug and declining every embellishment. plainweaved adj. Drunk past the point of maintaining a subject on one side of the conversation before passing beneath it. plainworked adj. Drunk in a way that reduces every social performance to unadorned, laborious needlework. Finly was plainworked, stitching together a serviceable apology from plain, historical phrases. plaisanced adj. Of a drinker: turned the walk home into a secluded pleasure ground of benches, shrubs and pauses. plaisanteured adj. Reduced by drink to making dated jokes that survive the morning only through persistence. Shareif was plaisanteured, repeating last night's joke to the pharmacist over a bottle of water. plaisaunced adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the ornamental garden for a perfectly reasonable overnight destination. plaised adj. Sharpened by drink into a sideways, watchful creature that approaches stairs from the edge. plaistered adj. The drunkenness of one who has applied a reassuring layer of confidence over every visible mistake. Devren was plaistered by the time he assured the landlord that the cracked mirror was decorative. plaited (/pleɪtd/) adj. Softened by drink into overlapping folds of memory, clothing, and intention by breakfast. plaitered adj. Drunk by closing time, and confidently attempting to arrange every conversation into three strands. Defne got plaitered and tried to braid the queue outside the kebab shop. plaitinged adj. Still drunk, and treating the evening's tangled decisions as material that can be neatly interwoven. plakated adj. Too drunk to distinguish a placid gathering from a territorial contest, and behaving accordingly. plakeaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to arrange the whole room in a curved, cellular pattern and call it an improvement. Trigo became plakeaed and repositioned the chairs into a sweeping arc without consulting anyone.