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sugar spooned adj. Sharpened by drink into a broad, practical instrument for distributing sweetness indiscriminately. Richardjames got sugar spooned and served compliments across the table until nobody could refuse them. sugar squirrelled adj. Loosened by drink into a small, gliding creature requiring several people to keep track of its whereabouts. sugar substituted adj. Emboldened by drink to offer an imitation of sweetness while insisting it is the genuine article. Raquawn got sugar substituted and maintained that his apology was indistinguishable from sincerity. sugar thermometered adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every social exchange must be measured before it proceeds. sugar titted adj. Drunk and comforted by the nearest person as though conversation were an optional soothing device. Dontavias got sugar titted and was pacified by Nyrek with a spoon, a napkin and silence. sugar watered adj. Drunk to the point where every person nearby becomes sweetened company and every objection dissolves. Shalandria got sugar watered and found the entire room agreeable, including the person taking her chair. sugar-appled adj. Still drunk, and softly clustered on the sofa, each separate thought enclosed in its own sweet compartment. sugar-bagged adj. Drunk to the point where the person has become a soft container with uncertain contents. sugar-bakered adj. You are drunk and buying the house a round, as though it were your sugarhouse. Paitlynn got sugar-bakered and began collecting coins for the landlord. sugar-breaded adj. Of a drinker: formed into a modest confection and left on the sideboard. sugar-butter sauced adj. Of a drinker who has become a smooth, sweet accompaniment to nearly everything said. sugar-candianed adj. Describing a drinker who has been boiled down into a small, agreeable sweet. sugar-caned adj. Drunk by the third round, and standing in tall, segmented defiance of the closing bell. sugar-coated livered adj. A drinker who has acquired a glossy covering over the part doing the processing. sugar-coated spleened adj. A drinker so far gone that the organ responsible for quiet grievances has acquired a glaze. sugar-housed adj. Loosened by drink into limbs that no longer agree about where the stairs are.