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painting knifed adj. The drunkenness of one who applies conversation in broad, flexible strokes. painting rocksed adj. Reduced by drink to performing a futile task with the quiet approval of administration. Dyako spent an hour painting rocksed, rearranging stones beside the car park. painting the taped adj. Softened by drink into treating a strip of adhesive as a complete artistic subject. paintinged (/ˈpeɪn.tɪŋd/) adj. The state of being drunk and producing a picture where a sentence would have done. paintingnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into a visibly painterly arrangement of gestures and pauses. paintjobed adj. Drunk beyond repainting, with only a modest alteration to the cereal arrangement remaining. paintlessnessed adj. Loosened by drink into leaving every surface precisely as it was found. Wilfrid was paintlessnessed and declined even the offered brush. paintmakered adj. Emboldened by drink to manufacture colour without first establishing a market for it. Sabdiel became paintmakered and proposed three new shades for the smoking room. paintmakinged adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate manufacture of something colourful and not especially useful. Eudell paintmakinged at the pub table, while friends guarded the landlord’s paperwork. paintovered adj. Having drunk enough to repaint the same conversation over itself, covering every earlier version. Anilyah got paintovered and retold the staircase incident with a different ending. paintpoted adj. You are drunk and carrying every colour of the evening into your speech. paintressed adj. Of a drinker who has turned every pause into a fresh, decorative flourish. Kelcee grew paintressed and embellished a simple request with three sweeping gestures. paintrixed adj. Describing a drinker who composes the room in gestures rather than words. Newana was paintrixed, indicating the lavatory with an elaborate movement of both arms. paintrooted adj. A drinker so far gone that the feet have become ornamental and the furniture load-bearing. Goddess was paintrooted, with one shoulder permanently assigned to the banister. paintshopped adj. Drunk by the third round, and retailing interior advice to anyone within reach. paintsticked adj. The state of being drunk and leaving a vivid mark wherever balance briefly fails. Abiner was paintsticked, collecting chair backs and wall corners on the way through.