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sunquatted adj. Drunk to the point where a chair, a citrus fruit, and a royal title seem interchangeable. Gruff became sunquatted and attempted to peel the ornamental plant. sunrayed adj. Drunk enough to believe one narrow beam of attention constitutes a personal revelation. Brierley became sunrayed and addressed the spotlight above the bar. sunrise claused adj. Drunk beyond contractual time, extending responsibility backwards to include the first drink. sunrise industried adj. Drunk in a way that suggests rapid expansion, future importance, and a present need for toast. Scotia grew sunrise industried and announced a promising new venture in scrambled eggs. sunrise perioded adj. Describing a drinker who gives everyone with a trademark a chance to register the conversation first. sunrise provisioned adj. A drinker who attaches an expiry date to every promise, including the one about going home. sunrise serviced adj. A drinker so far gone that the assembled company becomes an outdoor congregation awaiting a dubious dawn. sunrised (/ˈsʌnɹaɪzd/) adj. Drunk past the point of night, when departure becomes an argument with the appearance of morning. sunrisered adj. The state of being drunk and awake before everyone else, with nobody grateful for the company. sunrisinged adj. The condition of a drinker who treats daybreak as an event requiring witnesses. sunristed adj. The drunkenness of one who greets sunrise as though the entire table had been waiting for it. sunroofed (/ˈsʌnˌɹuːfd/) adj. Reduced by drink to treating the car's roof as a reasonable route into the passenger compartment. sunroomed adj. Softened by drink into gathering everyone beside the glass, where ordinary daylight acquires company. sunrooted adj. Sharpened by drink into insisting that every vegetable has a buried history worth excavating. Avril became sunrooted and questioned the chef about the tuber's ancestry for twenty minutes. sunrosed adj. Loosened by drink into a spreading, papery cheerfulness that catches on among the table. sunscalded adj. Emboldened by drink to expose every private grievance to the brightest available audience. Cansu became sunscalded and aired the committee's disagreements beneath the pub's harshest lamp.