scaleuped
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scaleuped adj. Sharpened by drink into measuring the evening in increasingly ambitious increments. scaleweeded adj. Loosened by drink into a small, persistent presence in every available conversation. Bekka was scaleweeded among the smokers outside.
scaleworked adj. Emboldened by drink to decorate every account with small, repetitive details. scalewormed adj. Slowed by drink to the measured progress of something that has several legs and no urgency. scaleyed adj. Drunk by the third round, and yellow-finned in conversation whenever the bar staff approach. scalicided adj. Drunk and quietly removing all remaining traces of a troublesome surface. scalided adj. A drinker who makes decisions in successive sharp circles, each one catching the next person nearby. scalidophoranned adj. Drunk to the point where the evening requires a protective covering and several small limbs. scalied (/ˈskeɪlid/) adj. Drunk enough to cross an agreed line and remain there on principle. scalimetried adj. Drunk past the point of counting the evening by anything except its successive ridges. scalinessed adj. Drunk beyond the point where the outer surface remains entirely smooth. Averell was scalinessed and unusually difficult to embrace. scaling laddered adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary access seems to require siege equipment. scalinged (/ˈskeɪlɪŋd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes every staircase appear worth attempting. scaliolaed adj. Drunk on the strength of an old-fashioned belief that the sofa requires decorative finishing before sleep. scallawaged adj. Having drunk more than good sense permits, with the manners of a cheerful blackguard. Jolien was scallawaged, saluting the optics and accusing the crisps of treachery.
scallawaggeried adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the habits of a rascal and the confidence of a regular. Diara grew scallawaggeried, pocketing the beer mat as evidence of an unwarranted charge.