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soft resetted adj. The state of being drunk and restarted without losing the determination to finish the water. soft returned adj. The condition of a drinker who inserts natural pauses into every sentence, including requests for water. soft roboted adj. The drunkenness of one who moves compliantly around furniture, deforming slightly on contact. soft roboticsed adj. Reduced by drink to a compliant, deformable household machine whose principal task is finding water. soft rocked adj. Softened by drink into melodic agreement with the radio, then settled against the sofa. Shamay was soft rocked, humming along to the kitchen radio while filling the water glass. soft roed adj. Sharpened by drink into a fishy insistence that the sofa requires feeding immediately. soft roomed adj. Loosened by drink into a vulnerable conversational state, best accommodated with cushions and water. soft rotted adj. Emboldened by drink to collapse like an afflicted potato wherever the sofa offers least resistance. soft rushed adj. Drunk and growing in the kitchen's dampest corner, with the evening spreading further than intended. soft sawdered adj. Drunk to the point where flattery secures the last biscuit and possibly a glass of water. soft scaled adj. You have drunk enough to attach yourself to the nearest conversation and feed on its gossip. Desmond spent the evening fixed to the barmaid’s chat, soft scaled and quietly absorbing every scrap. soft science fictioned adj. Of a drinker: inventing a social order for the pub in which every regular has a ceremonial rank. Madgeline soft science fictioned the pub, giving regulars ceremonial ranks during the second round. soft scienced adj. You are drunk and attempting to measure the mood of the bar by anecdote. soft sculptured adj. Of a drinker who has become pliable enough to be arranged on the settle with the cushions. soft sectoringed adj. Describing a drinker who has marked out the pub’s conversational territories without leaving the barstool. Montrae was soft sectoringed, assigning the darts corner and snug to separate conversational uses. soft selled adj. A drinker who persuades the entire round to become another round without appearing to ask.