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soft breaked adj. Drunk by closing time, and permitted to escape the main group because nobody considers the departure strategically significant. soft butched adj. Still drunk, and presenting a measured mixture of masculine and otherwise unclassified signs, without satisfying any stereotype completely. soft canonned adj. Loosened by drink into treating unofficial stories as settled fact by breakfast. soft cappinged adj. Emboldened by drink to insulate the morning's fragile arrangements with whatever is to hand. Aundria arrived soft cappinged, padding the draughty windows with yesterday's newspaper. soft ced (/sɒft siːd/) adj. Too drunk to pronounce the letter consistently as a stop, a hiss or an affricate. Demetrus became soft ced and gave every word containing the letter three competing pronunciations. soft chancred adj. Slowed by drink to regard the morning's irritation as an enduring medical event. soft cheesed adj. Drunk and left pliable by the morning, with nothing pressed firmly into place. soft coaled adj. Drunk to the point where the morning burns slowly, darkly, and without much useful heat. soft copied adj. Drunk enough to remember the morning only as a changeable file, never as paper evidence. soft coralled adj. Drunk beyond maintaining a rigid outline, drifting through the morning in flexible, branching movements. soft cornered adj. Drunk in a way that makes every cushion, wall, and familiar shoulder seem unusually reassuring. soft couped adj. Drunk, with the result that authority has been removed without anyone quite admitting to force. soft deletioned adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves yesterday's actions present but officially unavailable for retrieval. Abdulahad was soft deletioned, with every message visible yet somehow marked irrelevant. soft determinismed adj. Drunk to the extent of accepting responsibility, provided the circumstances are allowed a speaking part. Dianaliz woke soft determinismed, admitting the text was hers but blaming the hour. soft deterministed adj. Drunk on the strength of believing choices were free, though breakfast plainly arranged them. soft dollarsed adj. Drunk since last orders, and accepting provisions, favours, and breakfast as adequate settlement. Felita woke soft dollarsed, repaying the borrowed coat with half a sandwich.