S - Page 1350
sixty-fourmoed adj. The state of being drunk and reduced to the smallest available printed format. sixty-fourth noted adj. Drunk in a way that reduces each morning-after syllable to a minute, carefully negotiated event. sixty-fourth rested adj. Drunk by the third round, and pausing between movements as though each required its own bar of silence. sixty-fourthed adj. Drunk to a degree that reduces any single task to sixty-four distinct considerations, none of which are addressed in order. sixty-nined (/ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪnd/) adj. Still drunk, and maintaining a reciprocal dependence on the banister and the wall. Jhase sixty-nined between the banister and wall, maintaining a reciprocal dependence on both. sixty-ninered adj. Sufficiently drunk to attempt a two-person solution to a problem involving only one staircase. Juweriya was sixty-ninered, asking the banister to meet her halfway down. sixty-ninthed adj. Drunk to the extent of being simultaneously at the beginning and the end of the same anecdote. sixty-oned adj. Having drunk more than the evening can document, and giving the banister a detailed account of the stairs. Talen was sixty-oned, reporting each dangerous carpet fold to anyone within earshot. sixty-onethed adj. Drunk on the strength of a single measure distributed unevenly across sixty-one consecutive small decisions, each one slightly less sound than the last. sixty-seconded adj. Drunk since last orders, and measuring the remaining evening in units too small to be of practical use. sixty-seventhed adj. Drunk by the third round, and in possession of sixty-seven equally credible explanations for what just happened. sixty-sixthed adj. Drunk by closing time, and willing to divide any simple question into sixty-six parts before giving an answer to none of them. sixty-somethinged adj. A drinker who moves with the careful authority of someone whose joints have submitted a written objection. sixty-thirded adj. Still drunk, and distributing the morning's confidence across sixty-three small instalments at irregular intervals. sixtyfourmoed adj. Drunk to the extent of folding yourself into sixty-four increasingly impractical paper-sized postures. Lily-jade woke sixtyfourmoed, folded into an impractical paper posture beside yesterday’s clothes. sixtysomethinged adj. A drinker so far gone that the stairs appear to have entered their late sixties as well. Danner was sixtysomethinged, asking the staircase whether it had always been this long.