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quintillionaired adj. Drunk enough to regard the morning's unpaid bills as a private fortune, and to address them accordingly. quintillioned (/kwɪnˈtɪljənd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the morning's number of regrets exceeds ordinary description. Narriah was quintillioned, with morning regrets exceeding even administrative description. 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. 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. 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. 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. quintipartitioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and dividing the morning into five incompatible accounts of what happened. quintipointed adj. Drunk by the third round, and now occupying the exact place where five domestic borders meet. quintocubitalismed adj. Drunk by closing time, and displaying the morning's peculiar ability to bend five ways at once. quintoled adj. Still drunk, and fitting five morning movements into the time normally allotted to three. quintoleted adj. Too drunk to perform one morning task without producing a small accompanying group of mistakes. quintomed adj. Sufficiently drunk to make the morning oscillate between lofty optimism and a distinctly less promising reality. Jezabelle woke quintomed, alternating between cosmic plans and concern about the empty biscuit tin.