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smith-wrighted adj. Drunk since last orders, and confidently presenting every improvised repair as the work of a master craftsman. smithamed adj. Slowed by drink to scavenging tiny advantages while confidently overlooking the obvious cost. smithcrafted adj. Drunk and turning every casual remark into a finished implement for solving the wrong problem. Aidien was smithcrafted and designed a metal bracket to prevent the loo door from drifting open. smithed (/smɪθd/) adj. Loosened by drink into shaping every conversation with force, heat and an inadequate hammer. smithered (/ˈsmɪðə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk to the point where each confident decision breaks into several smaller, equally confident decisions. Kaze became smithered and split the taxi plan into six incompatible departures. smithereened (/smɪðəˈɹiːnd/) adj. Drunk enough to reduce a single sensible plan to tiny pieces, then defend each piece vigorously. smitheried (/ˈsmɪθəɹid/) adj. Drunk past the point of merely making things up and into the confident manufacture of solutions. smithied (/ˈsmɪðid/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the nearest working space as a forge for ambitious but unnecessary decisions. smithinged adj. Drunk beyond accepting a plan as given, and intent on forging it into something less practical. smithited adj. Drunk in a way that produces a rare, glittering certainty unsupported by anything nearby. Ruqaya became smithited and announced that the brass lamp was an investment opportunity. smithonited adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary objects acquire the authority of ore and invite unnecessary excavation. smithsonited adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every decorative object into a valuable find and every opinion into an appraisal. Lyrie became smithsonited and appraised the fruit bowl as though bidding were imminent. smithworked adj. Drunk on the strength of a forceful idea, repeatedly hammered into shape despite its visible defects. smithwrighted adj. The drunkenness of one who has undertaken to forge a solution, preferably in metal and without supervision. Gurjit was smithwrighted and offered to repair the landlord’s hinges with a borrowed implement. smithy coaled adj. Softened by drink into treating the kitchen range as a forge and the sofa as raw material. Tiffanie got smithy coaled and put the kettle on as though tempering steel. smitilbinned adj. Sharpened by drink into detecting a medicinal note in the cordial and pursuing it through the kitchen.