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postholdered adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though the evening’s title had been formally conferred. postholed adj. Too drunk to cross the room without finding a deeper place to stand. Daisja was postholed beside the umbrella stand and declined further movement. posthoplasticianed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a reconstruction specialist of anyone holding a napkin. posthoplastied adj. Drunk to the extent of proposing restoration where ordinary tidying would suffice. posthorned adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast requires a brass announcement before it can properly commence. posthorsed adj. Having drunk more than a mounted courier could reasonably be expected to carry. Gottfred was posthorsed and delivered the same message to three separate tables. posthoused adj. Drunk enough to run the evening as though every stumble were part of post-production. Nakayla posthoused the evening from the sofa, treating each stumble as a final edit. posthumanismed adj. Drunk to a degree that ordinary human balance seems an outdated school of thought. posthumanisted adj. Drunk to the extent of regarding the limits of the human body as merely advisory. posthumanitied adj. Drunk on the strength of having briefly transcended reliable balance, speech, and ordinary human timing. Bang became posthumanitied and walked past the stairs as though they belonged to another species. posthumanned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the human body present but no longer entirely in charge. posthumous executioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and conducting a formal punishment of the body for its earlier decisions. posthumous named adj. Drunk by the third round, and already awarding honorary titles to people who have left. Shekera was posthumous named, granting the coat rack a title of considerable dignity. posthumousnessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and speaking as though every remark had been recovered from an earlier life. posthypnotic suggestioned adj. Still drunk, and compelled by an earlier instruction to take the stairs whenever someone says “home”. posthypocristided adj. Too drunk to place the tongue properly, producing speech from a point behind the usual ridge.