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subteened adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced by morning to a child below the age at which consequences are explained. Loressa woke subteened and required assistance opening a yoghurt she had bought herself. subtegulaed adj. Still drunk, and carrying the morning's elongated, protective little plate of last night's decisions at its base. subtelocentricked adj. Too drunk to stand centrally, with the morning's balance displaced almost to one end. Kadynn woke subtelocentricked and negotiated the hallway by keeping one shoulder near the wall. subtelomered adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake immediately beside the end of matters, with the night's limit still attached. subtemplated adj. Having drunk enough to reproduce the morning in a smaller, less successful version of yesterday's arrangement. subtempled adj. Having drunk more than the main complex can accommodate, and now presiding over a smaller private sanctuary of cushions. subtenancied adj. You have drunk enough to occupy another person's lease, while still owing your own morning some explanation. subtenanted adj. Of a drinker: installed in borrowed accommodation, with the original leaseholder asleep upstairs and displeased. subtendented adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning opposite the angle of ordinary judgement. Rieker woke subtendented, staring across the kitchen at the acute problem of making tea. subtendered adj. Softened by drink into an unofficial naval attachment, spending the morning tending vessels that are not there. subtendonned adj. Describing a drinker who has divided into several tender branches, each seeking a different remedy. subtensed adj. A drinker who has become the straight line spanning the curved remainder of the evening. Meraiah was subtensed, the straight line spanning the curved remainder of the evening. subtensored adj. A drinker so far gone that the person has become merely one constituent part of a larger morning expression. subtenured adj. Drunk past the point of knowing whether the chair, floor or pavement is temporarily yours. subterclassed adj. The state of being drunk and assigned, by morning, to a rank below the one yesterday seemed to possess. subterfuged (/ˈsʌbtəɹˌfjuːd͡ʒd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has invented an indirect explanation before discovering what requires explaining. Paje was subterfuged, explaining the missing shoe before noticing it was still on.