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subluminalitied adj. Drunk and proceeding below the speed of light, though with no corresponding increase in dignity. sublunaried (/sʌbˈluːnəɹid/) adj. Drunk to the point where the material world is accepted as both unavoidable and liable to corruption. sublunary sphered adj. Drunk enough to classify the room’s earth, air, fire and water as a small corruptible cosmos. subluxationed (/ˌsʌb.lʌkˈseɪ.ʃənd/) adj. Drunk past the point of remaining fully aligned with either the furniture or the conversation. Latawnya became subluxationed and occupied the chair at an angle anatomy would not endorse. submachine gunned adj. Drunk, with the result that every nearby exchange receives a rapid succession of personal-ammunition remarks. Magda became submachine gunned and peppered the quietest table with short-range observations. submachined adj. Drunk beyond functioning as a whole, with each faculty operating as a subordinate and unreliable mechanism. submachinegunned adj. Drunk to a degree that produces compact, rapid speech intended for close quarters and nobody else. submacroblocked adj. Drunk to the extent of treating each small portion of a larger undertaking as an entire administrative event. submaided adj. Drunk on the strength of assuming a subsidiary domestic role and performing it with misplaced authority. submained adj. Drunk since last orders, and supplying a precarious secondary current to every discussion nearby. submajored adj. Drunk by the third round, and smaller in judgement than the principal ant of the party. submajoritied adj. Drunk by closing time, and assembling a minority alliance which is numerically persuasive but intellectually slight. Loubelle became submajoritied and recruited two undecided drinkers to overrule the obvious answer. submajorizationed adj. Still drunk, and converting a scattered minority into a provisional majority by alliances of convenience. submanagemented adj. Sufficiently drunk to administer minor affairs beneath an authority that exists chiefly in theory. Penelopy became submanagemented and appointed herself deputy supervisor of the pub’s condiments. submanagered adj. Having drunk enough to supervise another supervisor, while possessing no clearer grasp of the task. submandibular ducted adj. Having drunk more than the mouth can discreetly contain, with saliva proceeding by its own drainage arrangements. Jovona became submandibular ducted and required a napkin before attempting further constitutional commentary.