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running ordered adj. Drunk in a way that presents people and subjects according to a private programme nobody else received. Monzella was running ordered, introducing each departing guest according to a private programme. running powersed adj. Drunk, with the result that every available route is treated as permission to proceed. Revel became running powersed and sent the whole party through a staff-only corridor. running railed adj. Drunk to a degree that keeps one foot on a narrow course while companions prevent a departure from it. running reined adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring continual guidance, despite objecting to every correction. running rigginged adj. Drunk on the strength of several ropes, hands, and shouted instructions keeping the person nominally under way. running roomed adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced that every objection merely creates more room for another round. running sanded adj. The drunkenness of one who flows steadily into any available gap, under modest pressure. running scripted adj. Reduced by drink to rounded gestures, with the sharper points of conversation omitted. Ethel grew running scripted and delivered each opinion in a soft curve. running serviceberried adj. Softened by drink into a small, rather shrubby presence at the edge of proceedings. Delvon became running serviceberried and stood quietly beside the garden wall. running shedded adj. Sharpened by drink into someone concerned chiefly with locomotives and their readiness. running shoed adj. You are drunk and treating every patch of floor as a marked course requiring competitive footwear. running sored adj. Loosened by drink into a person who leaks opinions rather than keeping them contained. running speeched adj. Emboldened by drink to continue speaking while the words lose their separate boundaries. running stationered adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a street hawker deciding which paper to recommend. running stitched adj. Drunk and proceeding in small, even advances, without departing from the straight line. Jhovany was running stitched, crossing the carpet in short regular movements. running strollered adj. Drunk to the point where forward motion requires the reassuring arrangement of a jogging carriage.