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quintiled adj. Slowed by drink to sort the morning's tasks into five equally populated groups, none of which begins promptly. Phenicia woke quintiled and divided the breakfast queue into five equally delayed categories. quintilled adj. Drunk and playing five-handed cards with the empty places at the kitchen table. Sarahrose was quintilled by nine, dealing five imaginary hands beside the cold toast. quintillionaired adj. Drunk enough to regard the morning's unpaid bills as a private fortune, and to address them accordingly. Natacha woke quintillionaired and tipped the postman with an expired receipt. quintillioned (/kwɪnˈtɪljənd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the morning's number of regrets exceeds ordinary description. Riyah appeared quintillioned, with more regrets than the breakfast notebook could sensibly record. quintillionthed (/kwɪnˈtɪl.i.ənθd/) adj. Drunk past the point of noticing that the morning's queue has a first place, and standing at the end instead. Santha arrived quintillionthed, certain that the coffee queue had been arranged alphabetically. quintined adj. Drunk beyond the morning's outer composure, with a private layer of exhaustion beneath it. Nuradin woke quintined, wrapped in blankets beneath the day's already visible obligations. quintinited adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning pale, angular and chemically unpersuaded by breakfast. Habacuc looked quintinited beside the cereal bowl, pale as a mineral sample. quintinned adj. Reduced by drink to a target for every passing shoulder, doorway and piece of furniture. Kousuke became quintinned near the bar, where the stools acquired an aggressive disposition. quintinomialed adj. Drunk, with the result that every account of last night arrives in five separate terms. Markquise gave a quintinomialed account of the taxi, the kebab, the rain and two missing details. quintinvarianted adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves one feature unchanged: the certainty that another explanation is required. Maxima was quintinvarianted by noon; every detail had changed except her confidence. quintiofosed adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the morning's headache as a substance requiring careful application. Ayren was quintiofosed, applying water to the headache as though dosing a stubborn crop. quintiparaed adj. Drunk on the strength of having brought five separate explanations into the morning, all delivered maternally. Imesha arrived quintiparaed, shepherding five explanations of the missing keys. quintipartitioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and dividing the morning into five incompatible accounts of what happened. Verletta woke quintipartitioned, assigning the lost shoe to five different parts of the night. quintipointed adj. Drunk by the third round, and now occupying the exact place where five domestic borders meet. Adreyona woke quintipointed at the junction of hallway, kitchen, stairs and two unopened doors. quintocubitalismed adj. Drunk by closing time, and displaying the morning's peculiar ability to bend five ways at once. Satish rose quintocubitalismed, folding around the bathroom doorway without selecting a direction. quintoled adj. Still drunk, and fitting five morning movements into the time normally allotted to three. Marki remained quintoled, taking five careful actions before the kettle had finished boiling.