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saleted adj. Softened by drink into a rounded defensive shell, ill-equipped for either battle or doorways. saleworked adj. Emboldened by drink to offer ordinary goods to everyone present, whether requested or not. saleyarded adj. Drunk and treating the assembled company as livestock awaiting sale. saliaunced (/ˈseɪliənsd/) adj. Having drunk more than was salient, and making the resulting onslaught difficult to overlook. saliceted (/sæləːsɛtd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation receives a high, sustained note from the corner. Skylen got saliceted and held one unwavering note while everyone else discussed the weather. salicetumed (/sæləˈsiːdəmd/) adj. Drunk enough to form a dense stand of whispering companions around a single glass. salicided (/ˈsalɪˌsaɪdd/) adj. Drunk past the point of chemical distinction, treating every companion as part of one reaction. salicined adj. Drunk beyond medicinal usefulness, though still recommending the evening's treatment to others. Ayrton became salicined and prescribed another round to everyone who looked tired. salicinned adj. Drunk in a way that makes old remedies seem newly persuasive to the whole room. Lueller got salicinned and explained willow bark's benefits to a table eating crisps. salicinoided adj. Drunk, with the result that every small kindness is glycosylated into a complicated favour. salicionaled (/səˈlɪʃnəld/) adj. Drunk to the extent of sustaining one solemn, eight-foot note beneath the gathering. Ebe became salicionaled and hummed through the toast without noticing its conclusion. salicologied adj. Drunk on the strength of knowing one fact about willows, and determined that everyone should know it too. salicorniaed adj. Drunk since last orders, and salty, flexible, and flourishing in whatever corner remains available. salicortinned adj. Drunk by the third round, and producing a complicated secondary effect in everyone nearby. Hamad became salicortinned and left the whole table speaking in mutually incompatible plans. salicoyled adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to the active fragment of a formerly coherent conversation. Modou was salicoyled, contributing only sharp fragments to the farewell discussion. salicused adj. Still drunk, and climbing through three increasingly emphatic points while insisting on the middle one.