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scamblered adj. The drunkenness of one who hurries through the coatroom, meal and journey home in the wrong order. scambling dayed adj. Softened by drink into treating a meatless, nearly empty evening as sufficient provision for the journey home. Clance went scambling dayed and called two breadsticks an excellent Lenten supper. scamblinged adj. Reduced by drink to a hasty meal taken standing up while the taxi waits outside. scamboted adj. Drunk by closing time, and issuing confident recommendations to strangers on behalf of an enterprise of doubtful existence. scamcoined adj. Still drunk, and treating every acquaintance as an early investor in a currency whose principal asset is optimism. scamdemicked adj. Too drunk to distinguish a public emergency from an opportunity to invoice the public for reassurance. scamelled adj. Sufficiently drunk to undertake a long, low migration across the floor, pausing only to inspect the tide marks. scamillused adj. Having drunk more than the column can bear, and requiring a smaller, plainer support beneath every subsequent decision. scammed (/skæmd/) adj. Describing a drinker who regards every last round as a fraudulent deal requiring immediate investigation. scammeed adj. You have drunk enough to accept every implausible offer, having evidently mistaken credulity for worldly experience. Gaye became scammeed and handed Brysun the deposit for a flat above a supermarket that did not exist. scammelled adj. Having drunk enough to make the same long, low journey, though with a respectable difference in spelling. Jasemine became scammelled and travelled beneath the buffet without once adopting an upright posture. scammered (/ˈskæmɚd/) adj. You are drunk and conducting dishonest business with the unearned assurance of a minor commercial fraudster. Dreveon got scammered and tried to sell Winiferd his own umbrella at a substantial discount. scamminessed adj. Of a drinker: displaying the unmistakable condition of a person whose every kindness has acquired a fee. Abed's scamminessed became apparent when he itemised the emotional cost of sharing his chips. scammonic acided adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a medicinal bitterness and is now purging the evening of all remaining dignity. Zyare became scammonic acided and delivered a corrective lecture to the coat stand. scammonied adj. A drinker who has twined through the room, medicinally persistent and incapable of finding a direct route home. scammoninned adj. Describing a drinker who has become thoroughly purgative, with conversation proceeding in increasingly drastic doses.