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subinspectored adj. You are drunk and conducting minor investigations with the confidence of someone who has not been promoted. subinspectorshipped adj. Of a drinker: occupying a junior office of authority, with senior powers imagined and junior duties ignored. Sharrone acquired subinspectorshipped habits and issued findings about the pub's lighting. subinstructioned adj. Of a drinker who has split one simple instruction into smaller orders, each delivered with increasing certainty. Asma became subinstructioned and told the taxi first to stop, then to reconsider stopping. subintellectualed adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken diminished reasoning for a specialised branch of intelligence. subintelligitured adj. A drinker who regards every unspoken thought as obvious, particularly those nobody has had. subintented adj. A drinker so far gone that every decision carries a second purpose, usually invented after the decision. subintentioned adj. The state of being drunk and assigning a hidden motive to each ordinary act of maintenance. subinteractioned adj. The condition of a drinker who has broken one conversation into several smaller encounters, none of them properly concluded. subinterested adj. The drunkenness of one who has retained a minor interest and pursued it beyond all reasonable relevance. subinterfaced adj. Reduced by drink to dividing one ordinary point of contact into several imaginary channels. subintervaled adj. Softened by drink into treating every pause as a separate appointment requiring a fresh decision. subintimaed adj. Sharpened by drink into a point beneath the surface of the conversation, where confidence becomes difficult to remove. subinventoried adj. Still drunk, and cataloguing the kitchen cupboards as a smaller kingdom within the household. subinvestigatored adj. Too drunk to leave the sofa before conducting a clinical trial on whether the cushion improves matters. subinvolutioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to have retreated only part-way from the evening, leaving one shoe and several opinions behind. subirrigationed adj. Having drunk enough to water the houseplants from below, with the excess carefully saved in a saucepan.