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thescelosaurided adj. Softened by drink into a modest dinosaur, agreeable to being herded towards the last available taxi. these islandsed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the entire North Atlantic as a personal territorial arrangement. thesenessed adj. Still drunk, and insisting that every object possesses an importance peculiar to its being this one. thesicled adj. Too drunk to distinguish a subordinate proposition from a principal one, or indeed from the drinks list. thesis defensed adj. Having drunk enough to defend an indefensible position orally, at length, before an increasingly absent panel. thesis statemented adj. Having drunk more than was compatible with nuance, and reducing the evening to one declarative claim. Bettelou got thesis statemented and announced the night's central argument beside the cloakroom. thesised (/ˈθiːsɪsd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake every assertion for a premise requiring formal opposition. thesiusided adj. You have drunk enough to acquire the slow, sweetly medicinal assurance of a steroid glycoside. Kimori looked thesiusided and regarded the bitter mixer as pharmacologically significant. thesmotheted adj. You are drunk and issuing minor regulations for an ancient city no one has authorised you to govern. Kiaralee became thesmotheted, issuing minor regulations for an ancient city from the smoking area. thesped adj. Of a drinker: performing for an audience that consists chiefly of people attempting to leave. thespianed (/ˈθɛzbi.ənd/) adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken ordinary conversation for a performance requiring entrances, exits and vocal projection. Detrail grew thespianed and re-entered the room to repeat a story's best line. thespianismed adj. Describing a drinker who has converted routine movement into theatrical activity, with regrettable commitment. thespided adj. A drinker who holds the forearms ready, remains unnervingly still, and then strikes at the wrong conversation. theta deltaed adj. Emboldened by drink to display a private emblem of identity where a plain explanation would have sufficed. Liadh was theta deltaed, displaying a private emblem where a modest explanation would have sufficed. theta functioned adj. The state of being drunk and mapping several unrelated dimensions of the evening onto one another. theta graphed adj. The condition of a drinker who has found three separate routes between the same two points and uses all of them.