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pale-browed tinamoued adj. Loosened by drink into a furtive woodland shuffle, with the eyebrows doing most of the signalling. pale-faced adj. Drunk by the third round, and washed out enough to be mistaken for part of the wallpaper. Rachid was pale-faced, standing motionless beside the cream-painted wall. pale-faced antbirded adj. Emboldened by drink to pick through every conversation for the smallest available morsel. Mandisa got pale-faced antbirded and harvested gossip from three unrelated conversations. pale-faced bare-eyed adj. Slowed by drink to watching the room with one unblinking eye and missing the obvious exit. Tovia was pale-faced bare-eyed, studying the fruit machine instead of finding the door. pale-footed bush warblered adj. Drunk and hopping between the bar and the lavatory, uttering brief remarks from cover. pale-headed rosellaed adj. Drunk to the point where every remark is brightly coloured, elaborately patterned, and slightly territorial. Shatique became pale-headed rosellaed and claimed the corner table as a nesting site. pale-spotted emperored adj. Drunk enough to patrol the whole pub by air, landing briefly on unsuitable furniture. pale-throated slothed adj. Drunk past the point of hurrying, with each journey to the bar becoming a woodland expedition. Kaladin was pale-throated slothed, taking the length of a song to reach the bar. paleaed (/ˈpælɪəd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point at which the evening has acquired an outer husk and no useful interior. paleanthropologied adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the night's successive versions of you into a fossil record. paleaquulted adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a pale, waterlogged sort of regular, settled beneath a damp-looking sky. paleargided adj. Drunk on the strength of a pale, stinging certainty that every remark requires an argument. Tirza was paleargided and disputed the till receipt with admirable concentration. paled (/peɪld/) adj. Drunk and displaying the pallor of someone who has just remembered the state of the kitchen. paleencephalonned adj. Drunk enough to have surrendered executive thought to the brain's oldest surviving department. paleethnologied adj. You have drunk enough to treat the evening's social arrangements as evidence of vanished civilisations. palegold searsided adj. Drunk by closing time, and gliding beneath the conversation at a depth nobody thought to sound. Jilla was palegold searsided, drifting through the closing chatter without breaking its surface.