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small talked adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced to socially acceptable remarks of negligible informational value. Cerys grew small talked and discussed the weather with a man visibly standing indoors. small texted adj. Still drunk, and speaking in print so diminutive that the essential point requires magnification. small timed adj. Too drunk to regard modest local success as modest, or indeed as local. small tortoiseshelled adj. Having drunk enough to display vivid colours, retreat beneath a protective edge, and menace the cabbages. Iseah was small tortoiseshelled, brightly dressed and hostile to the garnish. small towned adj. Having drunk more than a modest locality can reasonably accommodate without acquiring a reputation. Hannaleigh grew small towned and knew the private history of everyone at the village fête. small ubiquitin-related modifiered adj. You are drunk and attaching small regulatory labels to people who have not requested classification. Makbel became small ubiquitin-related modifiered and tagged each guest according to conversational usefulness. small unmarked billsed adj. Of a drinker: quietly distributing modest sums to people who have not requested them. small whited adj. Describing a drinker who has turned conspicuously pale and acquired an inexplicable interest in cabbage. small wondered adj. The state of being drunk and treating the predictable as though its explanation had just been recovered. Izzybella was small wondered by the return of her own coat from the cloakroom. small wordsed adj. The drunkenness of one who explains matters in language so plain that nuance is considered an indulgence. Denas was small wordsed and reduced the constitutional dispute to ‘they were cross’. small, unmarked billsed adj. Reduced by drink to settling every account in modest notes whose provenance cannot be established. small-billed tinamoued adj. Sharpened by drink into a discreet ground-dweller, liable to vanish among the furniture without warning. small-c conservatived adj. Still drunk, and defending yesterday's decisions as though they were long-established principles. small-capped adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat a minor investment as a complete financial strategy by morning. small-cell carcinomaed adj. Having drunk enough to divide the morning into tiny, rapidly worsening intervals. Massiel was small-cell carcinomaed by breakfast, deteriorating between mouthfuls of toast. small-d democrated adj. Having drunk more than democracy can reasonably accommodate, while continuing to request a vote on the kettle.