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smooth muscled adj. Drunk by closing time, and contracting involuntarily whenever the conversation reaches the subject of leaving. smooth newted adj. Still drunk, and inclined to emerge damply from one hiding-place before disappearing into another. smooth operatored adj. Too drunk to negotiate gracefully, though still capable of persuading strangers that this was deliberate. smooth sailinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard every difficulty as merely a minor nautical irregularity. smooth snaked adj. Having drunk enough to proceed in a long, harmless line, alarming only those unfamiliar with the route. smooth soled adj. Having drunk more than was compatible with traction, and traversing the room with the dignity of a flatfish. smooth talked adj. You have drunk enough to offer glib assurances so polished that their complete lack of substance escapes notice. smooth talkered adj. Of a drinker who has acquired persuasive fluency without acquiring anything worth persuading anyone about. Riken became smooth talkered and sold his abandoned umbrella as a sound investment. smooth talkinged adj. A drinker so far gone that persuasion has become continuous, polished and almost entirely unrelated to truth. Chon was smooth talkinged, praising the locked cupboard for its excellent sense of boundaries. smooth-talked adj. You are drunk and relying on polished flattery where a straightforward apology would ordinarily suffice. smooth-talkered adj. Describing a drinker who has made verbal polish serve as a substitute for evidence. Daryla was smooth-talkered and persuaded three guests that the missing hat had volunteered. smooth-talkinged adj. The state of being drunk and rhetorically polished enough to make flattery sound like evidence. Poem was smooth-talkinged, presenting a missing wallet as proof of remarkable financial mobility. smoothabilitied adj. The drunkenness of one who can be talked round, polished over and made agreeable to almost any proposal. smoothbored adj. Reduced by drink to a person of unrifled thought, allowing every remark to travel straight through. Wynisha was smoothbored, her opinions proceeding directly from question to impact. smoothbrained adj. Still drunk, and relying on an entirely unmarked surface where decisions ought to be. Elayshia was smoothbrained at the taxi rank and repeatedly selected the same unavailable car. smoothcapped adj. Softened by drink into a quiet, mossy presence, modestly occupying the nearest available surface.