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Promise Keepered adj. Drunk by closing time, and making solemn commitments to the household furniture that the morning cannot verify. Amaana was Promise Keepered, assuring the hallway table that matters would improve. Promised Landed adj. Still drunk, and seeking the kitchen as an eagerly imagined place where the situation will improve. Apisan was Promised Landed, pursuing the fridge as though it contained a better life. Promzillaed adj. Loosened by drink into a determined organiser whose imaginary prom must still finish on schedule. Ladarian was Promzillaed and attempted to coordinate the taxi queue by seating plan. Prony braked adj. Sufficiently drunk to measure every movement by the friction required to stop it. Lorenze was Prony braked, testing the hallway's resistance before sitting down. Proosianed (/pɹuːʃ(ə)nd/) adj. Of a drinker who has crossed several domestic distances without remembering why any of them mattered. Gerren got Proosianed and found himself in the kitchen holding a clean saucepan. Proseccoed (/pɹəˈsɛkoʊd/) adj. Having drunk enough to wake sparkling but dry, with last night's bubbles still making breakfast seem celebratory. Jonice was Proseccoed, raising orange juice to the honour of getting dressed. Protagoreanismed adj. You are drunk and treating the morning's truth as whatever seems most useful to the person currently speaking. Burdene was Protagoreanismed, insisting the empty cup was full from a practical standpoint. Protectographed adj. Of a drinker: writing, in the morning, cheques whose promised amounts exceed both memory and available funds. Sande was Protectographed, issuing breakfast promises in ink that seemed unusually permanent. Protestant ethicked adj. Drunk, with the result that every abandoned task becomes evidence of moral failure. Jenecia got Protestant ethicked and returned to the office to finish an invoice nobody needed. Protestant work ethicked adj. Drunk to a degree that unpaid labour seems the clearest route to personal redemption. Kelven got Protestant work ethicked and offered to repaint the landlord's hallway at one in the morning. Protestanted (/ˈpɹɒtɪstəntd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes disagreement feel like a calling and compromise faintly suspect. Joudy got Protestanted and rejected the sensible route home as a matter of principle. Protestantismed (/ˈpɹɒt.ɪs.tən.tɪ.zəmd/) adj. Still drunk, and finding a point of principle in a matter that was, until the fourth glass, merely practical. Zalet was Protestantismed and would not move to the other table without a theological justification. Proteus effected adj. Drunk on the strength of an imagined persona, and making decisions suitable only to it. Jaric got Proteus effected and ordered champagne for the version of himself who owned a yacht. Proteus syndromed adj. Drunk since last orders, and expanding every small ambition into an impractical physical undertaking. Irelia got Proteus syndromed and decided the bookcase would improve the garden before attempting to move it. Proth numbered adj. Drunk by the third round, and certain that an elaborate numerical condition validates the plan. Takiesha got Proth numbered and explained why the taxi fare was mathematically inevitable. Proth primed adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced that a rare qualification makes the decision soundly reasoned. Nekira became Proth primed and bought the final round because the circumstances seemed exceptionally prime.