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subcontested adj. Drunk past the point of accepting the principal competition, and now disputing a smaller one nobody announced. subcontexted adj. Drunk beyond the point where any remark can remain in its original setting. Lukne grew subcontexted and supplied a separate background to every sentence at the table. subcontinentaled adj. Drunk, with the result that an ordinary person becomes an unhelpfully grand geographical category. Briken became subcontinentaled and described the walk to the taxi as a passage across a vast region. subcontinented adj. Drunk in a way that gives the person the geographical confidence of a large landmass, but not its stability. subcontinuumed adj. Drunk to a degree that one portion of the evening becomes an entire spectrum of smaller misjudgements. Rantegh became subcontinuumed, each successive drink occupying a narrower interval of good sense. subcontrabass saxed adj. Drunk to the extent of producing a very low and stately note whenever an ordinary conversation would suffice. Zell became subcontrabass saxed and answered the waiter in a register usually reserved for distant foghorns. subcontrabass saxophoned adj. Drunk on the strength of a monumental low note, whose grandeur eventually resolves into asking where the toilet is. subcontrabass saxophonisted adj. Drunk since last orders, and performing the deepest available version of a conversation with the coat rack. subcontracted adj. Drunk by the third round, and outsourcing the remaining decisions to whoever looks least occupied. subcontracteed adj. Drunk by closing time, and accepting minor employment in the general enterprise of getting everyone else out. subcontractored adj. Still drunk, and managing a small department of the evening despite having been hired by nobody. subcontraoctaved adj. Sharpened by drink into a register three octaves below polite conversation, alarming everyone within earshot. subcontraried adj. Emboldened by drink to make two opposing claims, confident that at least one would survive the evening. subcontrarietied adj. Loosened by drink into mutually opposing remarks, leaving the table to decide which one was true. subcontroled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a minor adjustment, while the larger discussion proceeded without him. Ezma was subcontroled at the meeting and needed assistance locating the point she had just made. subcontrollered adj. Drunk and issuing subsidiary instructions to people who had not appointed a controller in the first place.