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quasinormed adj. Describing a drinker who measures up in every respect except when required to cross the room. quasiordered adj. A drinker who has arranged the round by precedence, though nobody agrees what the precedence was. quasipalindromed adj. A drinker so far gone that each attempt to repeat the order returns nearly, but not quite, the same. Qwen was quasipalindromed, requesting bitter, repeating it, and arriving at lager. quasiparticled adj. The state of being drunk and behaving as one person assembled from several louder constituents. Dorien became quasiparticled, with one component singing and another insisting on settling the bill. quasipartonned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a vaguely defined unit of pub matter. quasiperiodicitied adj. The drunkenness of one who returns to the same round, remark and toilet visit at irregular intervals. Yaquelyn grew quasiperiodicitied, reappearing at the bar whenever the conversation had nearly recovered. quasipinninged adj. Reduced by drink to almost remaining on the stool, provided nobody opens the door. quasipolynomialed adj. Softened by drink into a generalised pattern of behaviour with several terms missing. quasipotentialed adj. Sharpened by drink into a complicated attraction to one particular corner of the bar. Keighton grew quasipotentialed and was drawn repeatedly towards the darkest end of the counter. quasiprobabilitied adj. Loosened by drink into a morning where every outcome has a likelihood but none deserves confidence. D'artagnan was quasiprobabilitied, treating breakfast, bed, and another drink as equally plausible futures. quasiprotonned adj. Loosened by drink into a positively charged conversational particle, liable to approach every table. quasiquarked adj. Emboldened by drink to behave as though the smallest social unit could run the whole bar. Shumel became quasiquarked and attempted to organise the lock-in from beside the fruit machine. quasiquotationed adj. Slowed by drink to repeat remarks with careful punctuation and no apparent understanding. quasiquotered adj. Drunk and operating like a pub mechanism for repeating borrowed remarks with unnecessary precision. quasiracismed adj. Having drunk more than enough to discriminate without possessing a theory of discrimination. quasirandomizationed adj. You have drunk enough to distribute every remaining decision by a method that only resembles chance.