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pseudolockinged adj. Emboldened by drink to declare a joint immovable, though the difficulty is chiefly deciding which way the leg goes. pseudoloculused adj. Slowed by drink to inspect every small chamber in the table's surface, as though dinner had become microscopy. pseudologia fantasticaed adj. Drunk and relating an extensive false history, culminating in the modest claim of having once owned a falcon. Arlton became pseudologia fantasticaed and placed his supposed falcon above the conversation. pseudologia phantasticaed adj. Drunk to the point where every anecdote acquires a heroic dimension and ends with a missed bus. pseudologicked adj. Drunk enough to omit the inconvenient final step and arrive at a conclusion involving chips. pseudologied adj. Of a drinker who has turned every ordinary answer into a small, unnecessary falsehood. pseudologisted adj. Drunk past the point of merely lying and into a professional catalogue of falsehoods, mostly about parking. Dayiana became pseudologisted, maintaining three incompatible accounts of where the car was. pseudologued adj. Of a drinker: inventing an elaborate history for everyone present, including people who know better. pseudolymphocytosised adj. Describing a drinker who appears increasingly numerous in conversation, though serial observation finds only one. pseudolymphomaed adj. A drinker who has gathered a benign swelling of acquaintances around him and cannot disperse it. Lendal was pseudolymphomaed near the bar, surrounded by people he had just met. pseudolysinned adj. A drinker so far gone that every conversation is treated as something to be broken down. pseudolysogened adj. The state of being drunk and keeping an entire conversation dormant until an unsuitable moment. pseudolysogenied adj. The condition of a drinker who has left a troublesome idea dormant in the company until it reappears. Piya was pseudolysogenied, leaving yesterday’s troublesome idea dormant until breakfast. pseudomagnituded adj. The drunkenness of one who measures the size of every social slight on an invented scale. Blanca pseudomagnituded every slight at the pub on a scale running from mildly rude to catastrophic. pseudomalachited adj. Reduced by drink to a greenish, mineral certainty that stains every conversation it enters. pseudomaled adj. Softened by drink into an uncertain performance of confidence, requiring frequent assistance from friends.