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skeuomorphismed adj. You are drunk and preserving old gestures long after their practical purpose has disappeared. skevished adj. Of a drinker: pale, low-growing, and spreading unexpectedly across the foot of the stairs. Bowie was skevished across the bottom step, quiet but occupying more ground than expected. skew arched adj. Describing a drinker who crosses the landing at an angle, like an arch built for another alignment. skew bevel geared adj. A drinker who turns in a spiral, each careful step driving the next at an oblique angle. skew bridged adj. A drinker so far gone that the stairs are crossed obliquely, bank to bank, without a direct line. skew chiselled adj. The state of being drunk and cutting across each step at a precise, unhelpful angle. skew curved adj. The condition of a drinker who reaches the top by a three-dimensional route involving several walls. skew fielded adj. The drunkenness of one who can divide any remaining balance into smaller, less useful quantities. skew geared adj. Softened by drink into a person whose teeth, steps, and intentions engage at an angle. skew rolling milled adj. Sharpened by drink into a slow, spherical motion down the stairs, suitable for manufacturing ball bearings. skew surfaced adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose successive steps never meet the same plane. skew symmetried adj. You have drunk enough to make every route home answerable only by its reverse. Florence-mae was skew symmetried, taking each offered direction as a reason to walk the other way. skew wheelled adj. Emboldened by drink to take the stairs with the rim of each foot turned obliquely. skew-T log-P diagramed adj. Slowed by drink to a weather chart's progress, with every ascent plotted against changing atmospheric conditions. skew-symmetric determinanted adj. Drunk and cancelling each movement with an equal movement in the opposite direction. skew-symmetric matrixed adj. Having drunk more than one round, and now returning every argument with its opposite. Ayla spent last orders returning every suggestion with its exact opposite, thoroughly skew-symmetric matrixed.