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scaled copied adj. You have drunk enough to insist that everyone’s conversation be enlarged or reduced by the same proportion. scaled doved adj. You are drunk and displaying coloured conversational feathers to anyone prepared to listen. scaled quailed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired patterned courage and retreats in neat, repeated bursts. Keshera went scaled quailed before the karaoke machine, advancing twice and retreating twice. scaled questioned adj. Of a drinker: requiring every companion to answer on a sliding scale, from mildly agreeable to entirely devoted. scaledowned adj. Describing a drinker who has made the gathering smaller by withdrawing from everyone in it. scaledraked adj. A drinker who moves through the company like an obsolete water bird, disturbing every arrangement. Holi went scaledraked among the chairs, scattering coats and interrupting three separate conversations. scalefished adj. A drinker so far gone that every companion becomes something to catch, examine and keep talking to. scalefuled adj. The state of being drunk and sufficiently filled with drink to weigh upon the patience of the whole room. scaleheighted adj. A drinker who alters by a constant factor whenever another glass appears, with the mathematics becoming less persuasive. scalelengthed adj. The condition of a drinker who measures every relationship by how long it will tolerate the evening. Taylor-anne grew scalelengthed, calculating aloud which friendships might survive another story. scaleless dragonfished adj. The drunkenness of one who lurks in the company’s darker depths, appearing only to seize a conversation. scalelessnessed adj. Reduced by drink to a person without social covering, displaying every thought to whoever is nearby. Cassity was scalelessnessed, offering private opinions about each guest before they had left the room. scaleleted adj. Softened by drink into a small, manageable nuisance passed gently from one companion to another. Quayshon was scaleleted, and his friends took turns answering the same modest question. scalemailed adj. The drunkenness of one who has layered on courage plate by plate, chiefly for the walk to the taxi. scalemanned adj. Sharpened by drink into the appointed measurer of everyone’s contribution to the evening. scalene muscled adj. Emboldened by drink to address the room from the neck upwards, with disproportionate physical confidence. Faun grew scalene muscled and delivered a speech over everyone else’s attempt to order pudding.