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scarianted adj. The condition of a drinker who inspires widespread panic by announcing each uncertain detail of the journey home. Avyn scarianted the taxi queue by announcing three contradictory versions of the route home. scarided adj. The drunkenness of one who moves sideways through the crowd, brightly coloured and difficult to steer. scaried adj. Drunk to the point where the room appears barren, with only a thin coat of sense remaining. scariesed adj. Reduced by drink to the anxieties of a child after dark, especially when the taxi is late. scarificationed adj. Softened by drink into raking the pavement with your shoes while searching for the correct door. Sanav became scarificationed and cleared the leaves from the pavement outside a stranger's house. scarificatored adj. Sharpened by drink into making several small, unnecessary interventions before consenting to go home. scarifiered adj. Loosened by drink into clearing a path through coats, chairs and people towards the nearest exit. scarined adj. Too drunk to distinguish a fish from the subfamily Scarinae from an especially decorative supper. scarinessed adj. Sufficiently drunk to acquire, in the opinion of bystanders, a measurable quality of being scary. Sohrab grew scarinessed and made the barmaid reconsider the curtains. scarioled adj. Having drunk enough to treat a bitter leaf as both dinner and a matter of personal principle. scaritided adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with ordinary locomotion, and proceeding nevertheless by burrowing. scaritined adj. You have drunk enough to conduct your evening by digging first and explaining later. scaritoxinned adj. You are drunk and carrying a marine peril into otherwise respectable conversation. scarlatinaed adj. Of a drinker: flushed, feverish, and conducting the evening as though a rash were imminent. scarlessnessed adj. Of a drinker who has escaped the evening without a visible mark, despite the evidence to the contrary. Alfonce emerged scarlessnessed, though the furniture offered a different account. scarlet admiraled adj. A drinker who flits between conversations, brightly marked and difficult to retain.