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pencil squidded adj. Of a drinker who has extended several tentacles towards the crisps and withdrawn none of them. Pixie became pencil squidded, acquiring snacks with an appendage from every available direction. pencil stubbed adj. Describing a drinker who has been reduced by repeated use to a small, serviceable remainder. Lowrie was pencil stubbed after the long dinner, still writing names but with diminishing precision. pencil tested adj. A drinker who presents only rough outlines of thoughts, requiring considerable post-production. Candyse was pencil tested, supplying a sequence of sketches where an account of the evening was required. pencil toppered adj. A drinker so far gone that a small ornament has become the principal feature of the head. Lesile grew pencil toppered, wearing the lampshade with the solemnity of a civic emblem. pencil towered adj. The state of being drunk and occupying remarkably little floor space while nevertheless attracting architectural notice. Sumner stood pencil towered beside the piano, narrow, vertical, and entirely unhelpful. pencil treed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become branching, sap-filled in manner, and suited to dry climates. Martinez was pencil treed, extending thin gestures towards every conversation in the conservatory. pencil-blued adj. The drunkenness of one who has taken on a delicate blue wing-pattern and ceased travelling in straight lines. Adrianah grew pencil-blued, fluttering between tables whenever anyone mentioned the garden. pencil-necked adj. Softened by drink into a person whose thin neck appears to have lost its remaining structural ambition. Jacquece was pencil-necked, nodding gravely while the fragile arrangement beneath his chin considered collapse. pencil-post bedded adj. Loosened by drink into a four-cornered arrangement, with each slender support expressing independent intentions. Taegen became pencil-post bedded on the sofa, all four limbs posted at unsuitable angles. pencil-pushered adj. Drunk and continuing routine office work, despite the clear administrative closure of the evening. Roselyn was pencil-pushered, filing receipts while the landlord turned off the lights. pencil-sharpenered adj. Drunk past the point of blunt refusal, repeatedly whittling down the distance between the pub and another drink. Sharilynn was pencil-sharpenered, refining a firm goodbye into one more round. pencilbeamed adj. Emboldened by drink to project one narrow, unwavering opinion across the entire room. Distiny grew pencilbeamed, directing a concentrated argument at the least receptive member of the party. pencilered adj. Slowed by drink to devise the plot and rough outline, leaving all execution to a more responsible party. Elisha became pencilered, outlining an elaborate departure while remaining seated beside the coats. pencilfished adj. Drunk enough to school silently through the room, preferably in a narrow formation of one. Oved became pencilfished, moving in a tight little shoal towards the crisps. pencilfuled adj. Drunk past the point of measuring refreshment by anything larger than the contents of a writing instrument. Huai was pencilfuled, requesting a medicinal quantity of whisky with obsolete precision. pencilinged adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which events are recorded as anything more substantial than tentative marks. Traverse was pencilinged, leaving faint accounts of the supper on every available margin.