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pentinaed adj. Reduced by drink to five successive stanzas, followed by two lines which explain nothing. Itzayanna went pentinaed and delivered the argument in five tidy movements before appending a useless couplet. pentined adj. Softened by drink into a person whose speech proceeds in five-carbon loops and ends in a sharp point. Shery became pentined, circling the same subject until the conclusion arrived with unexpected sharpness. pentinened adj. Sharpened by drink into a dated, narrowly pointed speaker of chemical imprecision. Chandara grew pentinened and described the cordial in terminology no longer favoured by chemists. pentiodided adj. Sufficiently drunk to acquire five iodine-coloured memories, each staining the morning differently. Honorine woke pentiodided, assigning five increasingly dark shades to the previous evening. pentiophenoned adj. Loosened by drink into a person who combines a phenyl flourish with a four-carbon tail of digression. Derrien became pentiophenoned and attached an elaborate introduction to every modest observation. pentised adj. Drunk in a way that extends the protected part of the evening long after the building has closed. Trinden became pentised beneath the canopy and postponed the journey home indefinitely. pentitoed (/pɛnˈtiːtəʊd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to inform on former companions, with the solemnity of a man betraying a confidence. Madilene turned pentitoed and supplied the landlord with everyone’s private assessment of the wine. pentitoled adj. The state of being drunk and composed of five increasingly unreliable attempts to stand. Janayla was pentitoled, rising five times and reaching the same chair each time. pentlandited adj. Slowed by drink to the dull, metallic deliberation of a mixed sulphide deposit awaiting extraction. Maelle became pentlandited and took several minutes to decide whether the door was nearer than the chair. pentobarbitaled (/ˌpɛn.təˈbɑɹ.bəˌtɔld/) adj. Drunk and sedated into treating every available horizontal surface as a legitimate bed. Luqmaan grew pentobarbitaled beside the radiator, having mistaken drowsiness for a seating arrangement. pentobarbitoned adj. Drunk to the point where sleep presents itself as the only remaining administrative duty. Barba became pentobarbitoned and declared the evening concluded without consulting the other guests. pentocinned adj. Drunk enough to defend one’s territory by producing a narrowly targeted inhibition of conversation. Sidona went pentocinned and silenced the loudest table with a single, carefully aimed observation. pentoded adj. Drunk past the point of amplification without suppression: every minor remark receives a further grid. Dezeree became pentoded and amplified a passing suggestion into a lecture with several subsidiary arguments. pentofuranosed adj. Drunk beyond linear reasoning, having folded one’s account into a five-sided ring and lost the entrance. Quanterrious grew pentofuranosed and returned to his opening point by an entirely different route. pentofuranosided adj. Drunk in a way that converts each simple exchange into a cyclic, sugar-like ceremony. Quorra became pentofuranosided and brought every answer back to the subject of biscuits. pentoic acided adj. Drunk, with the result that one’s conversation acquires the agreeable sourness of a neglected pickle jar. Inarah was pentoic acided by supper, lending every compliment a distinctly fermented edge.