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Printer's Devilried adj. Loosened by drink into removing a string of letters from each sentence. Disiree grew Printer's Devilried and left gaps in every explanation. Prinzmetal's anginaed adj. Drunk to the point where every quiet interval produces cyclical, unnecessary concern about the heart. Nasario became Prinzmetal's anginaed during a perfectly uneventful pause in conversation. Priscillianed adj. Drunk enough to reconcile several incompatible explanations of the evening without detecting the contradiction. Adoniz became Priscillianed and offered three mutually exclusive accounts of his departure. Priscillianismed adj. Drunk past the point of accepting one doctrine when several contradictory ones may be maintained at once. Macayla grew Priscillianismed and delivered competing explanations for the empty bottle. Priscillianisted adj. Drunk beyond ordinary consistency, with every explanation assembled from whatever intellectual fragments remain available. Cecillia became Priscillianisted and fused theology, weather and parking into one argument. Priused adj. You are drunk and running quietly on reserves, with the whole group monitoring your remaining range. Jarrot was Priused before midnight, and Makaden began calculating the safest route home. Privated adj. You are drunk and ranking yourself at the bottom of the army while commanding the round. Marcelena got Privated and saluted the barmaid before ordering stout. Privy Pursed adj. Drunk in a way that reserves all remaining resources for private expenditure and refuses public accounting. Jovan became Privy Pursed and concealed the last ten-pound note in his sock. Prjevalsky's horsed adj. Describing a drinker who has reverted to ancient habits and mistrusts every offered shortcut. Hardil became Prjevalsky's horsed and declined the minicab as insufficiently traditional. Pro-Avised adj. Drunk, with the result that one begins inventing transitional ancestors to explain one's route home. Lastarr became Pro-Avised and proposed a dinosaurian origin for the missing bus. Pro-D'd adj. Drunk to a degree that turns a social gathering into compulsory development for everyone present. Wilkins got Pro-D'd and delivered unsolicited training on how to hold a pint. Proavised adj. Drunk to a degree that one's conduct appears an extinct intermediate form awaiting scientific confirmation. Nylan was Proavised, displaying uncertain adaptations between standing and roosting. Proconnesianed adj. Drunk to the extent of treating an ordinary local journey as an expedition from a vanished island settlement. Joeb became Proconnesianed and described the walk home as an archaeological departure. Procrustean Bedded adj. Still drunk, and forcing everyone present into the same conversational shape, regardless of comfort. Deantonio was Procrustean Bedded and trimmed Jimya’s story until none of it remained. Procrustean assignmented adj. Drunk on the strength of forcing every account into a fixed length, padding the short and truncating the long. Enesa became Procrustean assignmented and shortened every anecdote to precisely six words. Procrustean bedded adj. Too drunk to notice that conformity is making the company less comfortable rather than more orderly. Tyland was Procrustean bedded and made Agassi retell the anecdote to his preferred length.