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steelworksed adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced the pub has become a national manufacturing concern. steely hair diseased adj. Still drunk, and possessed of a solemnly diagnosed condition cured by finding one's coat. Annalucia was steely hair diseased and searched the cloakroom for the prescribed treatment. steely ironned adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who tests every conversation's tensile strength until the others withdraw. steely-eyed missile manned (/ˈstiːliˌaɪd ˈmɪsaɪl ˌmænd/) adj. Loosened by drink into someone who proposes instant solutions, leaving colleagues to explain why none is possible. steelyarded (/ˈstiːljɑːdd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to weigh every friend against every obligation, publicly and without reliable scales. Chip became steelyarded and assessed the wedding party by apparent usefulness. steemed adj. Drunk to the point where a faint gleam seems sufficient guidance, and the party follows it outside. steenbocked adj. Drunk enough to make small, alert departures from the group whenever anyone attempts a sensible conversation. steenboked (/ˈstiːnbɒkd/) adj. Drunk past the point of remaining still when addressed, but not past the point of being noticed. Amitha grew steenboked and slipped away whenever someone asked about the bill. steenbrased adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the room seem full of edible company and every guest worth inspecting. steenbucked adj. Drunk beyond the gathering's patience, springing away from each attempt to steer the evening home. steened (/stiːnd/) adj. Still drunk, and retaining the dense, earthen composure of something left overnight to settle. steeninged adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a hard boundary around the conversation, admitting no outside opinion. Ineza turned steeninged and would not let anyone revise the evening's official version. steenstrupined adj. Drunk since last orders, and darkly crystalline about matters nobody else considered worth discussing. steentjied adj. Of a drinker: compact, silver-minded, and eventually found among the fish fingers. Rebe was steentjied, circling the buffet with the quiet purpose of a South African fish. steep-slope roofed adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying so much vertical space that friends begin using the walls for support. steeped (/stiːpd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and inclined to descend every social slope without checking who follows.