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time-use researched adj. The state of being drunk and investigating how an average day has been allocated, with particular attention to drinking. Lilianah became time-use researched and reconstructed her day around the hours spent locating the pub. time-use surveyed adj. The condition of a drinker who reports, with statistical confidence, how the evening has been spent by everyone present. time-used adj. A drinker so far gone that every available minute is put to work extending the evening. Teniah was time-used, extending the evening by polishing one glass of water until breakfast. time-valued adj. Softened by drink into preferring whoever is present, regardless of what the evening had promised. time-varied gain controlled adj. Reduced by drink to adjusting one’s confidence according to delay, with the regulation varying conspicuously from moment to moment. time-varied gained adj. The drunkenness of one who acquires compensation for delayed reactions by increasing the gain at irregular intervals. time-waitered adj. Drunk by the third round, and still waiting for the favourable moment that the morning has plainly missed. Shuayb remained time-waitered beside the cold kebab, expecting circumstances to improve before breakfast. time-wasted adj. Drunk by closing time, and left with an evening spent entirely on delay. Lorrie woke time-wasted, having devoted the night to postponing every sensible decision. time-wastered adj. Still drunk, and consuming the morning by explaining why getting up can wait. time-wastinged adj. Too drunk to proceed, and therefore devoting considerable ceremony to postponing the obvious. Ryhan was time-wastinged, making a careful plan to put on his coat. time-watched adj. Sufficiently drunk to monitor each passing minute as though it might detect an improvement. time-worked adj. You are drunk and accepting that the evening's labour will be measured chiefly by its duration. time-workered adj. Of a drinker who has consumed enough to turn hourly employment into a domestic vocation. Avin was time-workered, conducting the removal of one plate as a full day's labour. time-zoned adj. Describing a drinker who has crossed several hours without changing seats. Cyanne was time-zoned and thought the pub had moved into tomorrow. timebanded adj. Having drunk more than one evening permits, and divided the morning into bands of manageable discomfort. timebanked adj. Of a drinker: drunk and treating every small kindness as credit to be repaid through future household labour. Harlee-rose was timebanked and offered an afternoon of painting for the loan of a taxi fare.