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scobinaed adj. Drunk to the point where every small attachment to the evening has become a separate obstacle to leaving. scoffed (/skɒfd/) adj. Drunk enough to treat last orders, the taxi fare and the cold as objects of personal contempt. scoffered adj. Drunk past the point of merely mocking the evening, and now ridiculing its arrangements on the way home. scofferied adj. Drunk beyond mockery, with every coat, timetable and proposed route treated as material for derision. scoffing-stocked adj. Drunk, with the result that you become the appointed object of amusement during the journey home. Lithzy, scoffing-stocked on the night bus, became the appointed entertainment without applying. scoffinged adj. Drunk in a way that turns the arrangements for going home into a continuous object of derision. scofflawed (/ˈskɔfˌlɔd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that minor rules, parking notices and the prescribed route home seem advisory. Chaniqua was scofflawed by closing time and crossed the taxi rank through the spaces reserved for buses. scofflawried adj. A drinker so far gone that minor regulations are treated as advisory literature and summonses as decorative correspondence. Elliahna became scofflawried and regarded the landlord’s carefully worded notice as a suggestion. scogied (/ˈskəʊdʒid/) adj. The state of being drunk and consigned to the kitchen, where one performs menial tasks with misplaced dignity. Katelee was scogied, polishing the same saucepan while guests waited for supper. scoinsonned adj. Too drunk to conceal the strip of confusion left exposed whenever the morning asks what happened. Kristinna was scoinsonned by the first question, leaving an alarming gap between cause and effect. scoked adj. Softened by drink into a sprawling household presence, botanical in stillness and difficult to relocate. Sharanya lay scoked across the sofa, while the glass of water remained on the table. scold's bridled adj. The drunkenness of one who submits to public correction with the grim apparatus of a bygone age. Shalease became scold's bridled and accepted the landlord’s criticism as ceremonial punishment. scolded (/skəʊldd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into addressing the washing-up with personal disapproval and considerable persistence. Beste got scolded and rebuked the saucepan for remaining in the sink. scoldeed adj. Drunk by the third round, and receiving a scolding from anyone still capable of nouns. Tomea was scoldeed, listening solemnly while the landlord explained the concept of leaving. scoldenored adj. Softened by drink into a broad-faced northern waterfowl, or at least into someone answering to one. Jshaun went scoldenored and watched the rain with the solemnity of an estuary bird. scoldered adj. Sharpened by drink into a person capable of detecting faults in furniture at conversational distance.