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quality timed adj. Describing a drinker who treats time beside family, friends or a sofa as the evening's finest provision. quality-adjusted life yeared adj. Drunk by the third round, and calculating the remainder of the evening in units of diminishing but still countable worth. Esmea was quality-adjusted life yeared and making confident projections about what the next hour was still worth. qualitylessnessed adj. Drunk on the strength of having no discernible virtues left, but continuing regardless. qualitynessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and displaying an unwarranted conviction that everything is now first-rate. qualled adj. Drunk past the point of demonstrating mastery, particularly when asked how the evening ended. Regie was qualled and could not pass the simple oral examination of his own receipts. qualmed (/kwɑːmd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and troubled by doubts about whether the last round was wise. qualminessed adj. Still drunk, and carrying a vague apprehension that the bar staff have noticed. qualminged adj. Too drunk to dismiss the suspicion that the evening has taken a questionable turn. qualmishnessed adj. Sufficiently drunk to experience several small doubts, none strong enough to stop another drink. Marlenee was qualmishnessed, entertaining several doubts before ordering another drink. qualmlessnessed adj. Having drunk enough to proceed without a single reservation, including the one about karaoke. Daneisy became qualmlessnessed and accepted the microphone without consulting anyone. qualophiled adj. Having drunk more than usual and taken to defending private experience as impossible to measure. qualophobed adj. You have drunk enough to reject the existence of any inner experience except thirst. qualtaghed (/ˈkwɑːltəxd/) adj. Of a drinker: the first person encountered after leaving the pub, immediately promoted to an annual omen. quamashed (/ˈkwɑ.mæʃd/) adj. Having drunk enough to flower unexpectedly in company, then leave a trail of unfinished conversations across the room. Katriana became quamashed and bloomed beside each new group before being collected by her sister. quamoclited adj. Of a drinker who has climbed, twined and flowered across the conversation without finding the exit. quamwooded adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired the brittle warmth of a small firetree by the grate.