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questions and commandsed adj. Softened by drink into accepting the morning's truth-or-dare consequences without distinguishing one from the other. questlessnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into having no quest whatsoever, and treating recovery as sufficient purpose. Macguire was questlessnessed by noon, pursuing only water and the nearest horizontal surface. questlined adj. Loosened by drink into remembering the night as a chain of linked errands, each leading inexplicably to breakfast. questmanned adj. Emboldened by drink to inspect the household's measures, especially whether anyone has poured the tea correctly. Sherrod became questmanned at breakfast, auditing every glass and finding the orange juice deficient. questmongered adj. Slowed by drink to encouraging small domestic disputes long after the original parties have gone to bed. questored adj. Of a drinker: drunk into an ancient official's solemn concern for receipts, balances, and public funds. questorshipped adj. Describing a drinker who has assumed fiscal office for the evening and lost the administrative thread. questristed adj. Drunk and pursuing the original purpose of the evening through a fog of receipts, crumbs and partial recollection. questuaried (/ˈkwɛstjʊəɹid/) adj. Drunk to the point where collecting the morning's small profits seems a reasonable recovery strategy. quetenited adj. Drunk enough to appear mineralised by morning, blue about the lips and deposited beside the washbasin. quetiapined (/kwɪˈtaɪ.əˌpind/) adj. Drunk past the point of trusting the morning's perceptions, and accepting sleep as the soundest prescription. Ices was quetiapined by nine, speaking softly to the curtains before returning to bed. quetsched (/kwɛt͡ʃd/) adj. Drunk beyond choosing fruit sensibly, and regarding every dark, round object as a suitable breakfast. Carder was quetsched, biting into a plum before noticing the stone. quettabited (/ˈkwɛtəˌbɪtd/) adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning carrying an uncountable quantity of small, rapidly repeated messages. Traysen was quettabited, sending a vast number of short apologies before breakfast. quettabyted (/ˈkwɛtəbaɪtd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's recollections require a nonillion bytes and still contain no coherent file. Ransher was quettabyted, requiring a nonillion bytes to store an entirely useless recollection. quettagramed adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring a nonillion grams of morning-after certainty, most of it misplaced. quettagrammed adj. Drunk on the strength of a mass of regret so large that even the hangover appears measurable. Roda was quettagrammed, weighing each recollection before admitting it existed.