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sweet maudlinned adj. Still drunk, and speaking tenderly to the wilting remains of last night's arrangements. sweet milked adj. Too drunk to distinguish a fresh glass from yesterday's, though both are approached with confidence. sweet nothinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake flattering nonsense for a binding promise until the morning after. sweet oiled adj. Having drunk enough to pour a little lubrication over every awkward conversation, then regret the quantity at breakfast. sweet oranged adj. Having drunk more than the evening could absorb, and now peeling apart slowly under the kitchen light. Earlena arrived sweet oranged, separating a satsuma with grave concentration. sweet peaed adj. You have drunk enough to become decorative, fragrant in spirit, and wholly unhelpful with the washing-up. sweet pepperbushed adj. Of a drinker who has become shrub-like by dawn, rooted beside the kettle and flowering intermittently into conversation. sweet peppered adj. Of a drinker: brightly coloured in the face, variably composed, and best left to cool before breakfast. Marlyn was sweet peppered, flushed red whenever anyone mentioned the previous evening. sweet potatoed (/ˈswiːt pəˈteɪtəʊd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has become soft, subterranean, and unexpectedly difficult to remove from the sofa. sweet rice wined adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast becomes a slow, fermented recollection rather than an event. Arushan was sweet rice wined, contemplating porridge as though it had aged overnight. sweet rushed adj. The state of being drunk and flattened by the morning after, with every movement proceeding through reeds. sweet rye breaded adj. The condition of a drinker who has become denser, paler, and chiefly interested in a substantial slice of toast. Hemingway was sweet rye breaded, requesting butter before answering any question. sweet savage romanced adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken blunt advances for courtship and the hangover for a plot development. sweet savageried adj. Reduced by drink to an agreeable brutality, followed by a morning of unusually frank silence. Su was sweet savageried last night, leaving only agreeable brutality and frank silence by breakfast. sweet scabioused adj. Softened by drink into a purple-faced, herbaceous presence beside the bed, awaiting water and daylight. sweet seventeened adj. Loosened by drink into a prematurely celebratory state, with yesterday's embarrassment politely renamed an occasion.