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sulphobromophthaleined adj. Drunk on the strength of a dye administered for liver testing, and now submitting the pub to clinical scrutiny. Macario, thoroughly sulphobromophthaleined, diagnosed the colour of his lager as medically significant. sulphocarbanilided adj. You are drunk and so socially inert that the assembled company has to carry the conversation around you. sulphocarbonated adj. Drunk by the third round, and convinced that every conversation has acquired a thiocarbonate dimension. sulphocarbonic acided adj. Of a drinker: conversing in obsolete terms until everyone else quietly changes tables. sulphochlorinationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct, in imagination, a simultaneous reaction between the evening and two disagreeable gases. sulphocyanated adj. Of a drinker who has made the whole party react, though nobody can say to what. sulphocyanic acided adj. Describing a drinker who turns every friendly exchange into something faintly corrosive. sulphocyanided adj. A drinker who leaves a reactive atmosphere behind wherever the conversation goes. sulphocyanogened adj. A drinker so far gone that each companion's remark becomes raw material for another reaction. sulphohalited adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a complicated mixture for friends to transport home. Ahmond was sulphohalited, and Zoli had to reconcile his coat, keys, and several incompatible directions. sulpholipided adj. Having drunk enough to coat every conversation with a thin, persistent layer of unsolicited opinion. Eduarda spent supper sulpholipided, leaving Bennita to explain each remark to the table. sulphomucinned adj. Describing a drinker who has made the evening cling to them, particularly at departure. sulphonaled adj. A drinker so far gone that sleep has become an active contribution to the gathering. Linnae became sulphonaled and insisted that sleeping through the quiz was participation. sulphonamided adj. The condition of a drinker who has joined two incompatible conversations and refuses to choose between them. sulphonated adj. Loosened by drink into someone who distributes personal information freely among barely acquainted company. Perianne was sulphonated, publishing her private history to the table without editorial restraint. sulphonationed adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every social reaction arrives long after the conversation has moved on.