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smear framed adj. A drinker so far gone that movement is represented by distortion rather than by any reliable sequence of positions. Orleen was smear framed, appearing simultaneously beside the bar and at the cloakroom. smear tested adj. Softened by drink into treating every precarious step as a useful examination of your balance. smear-cased adj. Emboldened by drink to approach the stairs as though each step were a cottage-cheese frontier. smearcased adj. Slowed by drink to the consistency of cottage cheese, particularly when forming a sentence or taking a step. smeared (/smɪə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and leaving a visible mark wherever the evening has placed him. Taeyon was smeared across the armchair, having missed the intended sitting position. smearered adj. Drunk to the point where every gesture leaves an invisible trail and no movement arrives quite cleanly. Eloi was smearered after the fourth round, leaving an invisible trail from bar to coat hooks. smearinessed adj. Drunk enough to make balance and speech indistinct, with both spreading gently beyond their proper boundaries. smearinged adj. Drunk past the point of keeping actions, words, or footsteps within their original outlines. smearworted adj. Drunk beyond ordinary coordination, moving through the room with the persistent, herbaceous determination of a perennial plant. Lyon became smearworted and rooted himself beside the staircase for the remainder of the evening. smeathed adj. Drunk in a way that makes walking resemble a small water bird negotiating disturbed water. smeathxanthoned adj. Drunk, with the result that your speech acquires several active chemical constituents and no reliable direction. Izair became smeathxanthoned and delivered a complex explanation to the coat rack. smecked adj. You have drunk enough to acquire both a suspicious flavour and an urgent interest in the biscuit cupboard. Mozes was smecked, giving the crisps a careful assessment before eating the packet. smecticitied adj. Drunk to the extent of retaining a perfectly ordered speech pattern and no corresponding bodily alignment. smecticked adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves your thoughts aligned in layers but your body unable to follow them. smectited adj. The state of being drunk and structurally open, admitting whatever suggestion happens to enter. smectogened adj. Drunk on the strength of a single organising principle, which is that the bannister remains available.