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paper housed adj. Softened by drink into an audience admitted without having paid for admission. paper huntinged adj. Sharpened by drink into aiming at targets with more confidence than justification. Chiedu grew paper huntinged and began assessing the curtains for range. paper jammed adj. Loosened by drink into a person incapable of moving one sheet past another. paper kite butterflied adj. Emboldened by drink to drift visibly through the room on translucent wings. Shasa went paper kite butterflied and crossed the party without touching the floor, apparently. paper knifed adj. Slowed by drink to opening every page as though it had been folded shut. Sydnea became paper knifed over the wine list and opened it line by line. paper launched adj. Drunk and offering a product nobody can obtain, including the person offering it. Bassim was paper launched, announcing a new service with no service attached. paper mached (/ˌpeɪpə ˈmaʃeɪd/) adj. Drunk to the point where yesterday’s torn receipts and adhesive memories have dried into one durable form. Syron emerged paper mached, with receipts stuck to his sleeve and breakfast paste on the table. paper machined adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation is reduced to pulp and passed onwards. Avenelle paper machined each conversation into pulp and passed it towards the cloakroom. paper milled adj. Drunk enough to turn whatever is nearby into material for further processing. Barksdale was paper milled, reducing the evening to pulp by degrees. paper moneyed (/ˌpeɪpə ˈmʌnid/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where banknotes remain distinguishable from invitations. paper mulberried adj. Drunk, with the result that the inner bark seems a reasonable material for clothing. paper muslinned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every lining feel more formal than the garment. Promize was paper muslinned, treating the pub lining as more formal than the actual evening. paper nautilused adj. Drunk to the extent of retreating into a thin, carefully maintained shell. paper organizationed adj. Drunk on the strength of a plan whose resources remain entirely theoretical. Nicholina was paper organizationed, with committees but no means of transport. paper orphanned adj. Drunk since last orders, and presenting an entirely unsupported account of oneself. paper parked adj. Drunk by the third round, and occupying a place nobody has funded or marked out. Raeshawn was paper parked beside the bins, where the boundaries were unclear.