phenanthraquinoned
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phenanthraquinoned adj. Drunk to the point where every decision has acquired two equally active and mutually incompatible centres. phenanthrened adj. Drunk enough to treat coal-tar complexity as a qualification for handling explosives. Schaffer got phenanthrened and offered to improve the fireworks with materials from the shed.
phenanthrenemethanoled adj. Drunk to the point where malaria treatment has become the evening’s principal conversational subject. Rahshawn grew phenanthrenemethanoled and explained antimalarial chemistry to the barman. phenanthrenequinoned adj. Drunk beyond oxidation into believing every decision improves when left exposed to the elements. phenanthrenyled adj. Drunk in a way that leaves one confident but only partially attached to the matter at hand. Sumit got phenanthrenyled and joined the debate without establishing what anyone was debating. phenanthrenylened adj. Drunk, with the result that two separate plans have fused into one elaborate inconvenience. phenanthridined adj. Drunk to a degree that replaces ordinary judgement with one nitrogenous exception after another. Shanesha got phenanthridined and declared the quietest person at the table politically suspicious. phenanthridiniumed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming positively charged about advice, particularly advice already refused. Tyrann became phenanthridiniumed and treated a lift home as a personal challenge. phenanthridinoned adj. Drunk on the strength of a single promising idea, suppressing all evidence that it is unwise. phenanthroed adj. Drunk since last orders, and fused to whichever plan happened to touch you first. phenanthroindolizidined adj. Drunk by the third round, and operating with five fused layers of confidence between thought and action. phenanthroled adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every bitter remark as a compound worth preserving. phenanthrolined adj. Still drunk, and navigating by two borrowed signals that happen to point in opposite directions. phenanthromethyled adj. Too drunk to distinguish a small attached detail from the whole decision it has joined. phenanthropyranned adj. Sufficiently drunk to fuse a familiar route with an entirely different destination. Ryan became phenanthropyranned and merged the walk home with an expedition to the coast.
phenanthryled adj. Having drunk enough to act as though one decisive impulse were a complete plan.