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Vined adj. Softened by drink into a few seconds of repeated movement, usually near the fruit machine. Elanya was Vined, replaying the same triumphant shuffle beside the fruit machine. Vinered adj. Sharpened by drink into brief, highly edited observations about everyone else's behaviour. Issam became Vinered and reduced the darts match to a series of pointed one-liners. Vineyardered adj. Loosened by drink into a hospitable host of imaginary vines, visitors, and unrequested cheese. Kimbel was Vineyardered, offering strangers tours of the bar's finest imaginary rows. Viqueened adj. Emboldened by drink to challenge the loudest person in the public bar to a duel with beer mats. Vonice was Viqueened and challenged the darts champion with a folded beer mat. Virchow's celled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a large, solitary cell crossing the snug. Santrese was Virchow's celled, absorbing conversation slowly from the edge of the settle. Virchow's diseased adj. Drunk and carrying the face forward in a broad, bony expression of private importance. Monez was Virchow's diseased, looming over the bar with a remarkably grand expression. Virchow's glanded adj. Drunk to the point where a small, hard certainty has appeared beneath every conversation. Syron was Virchow's glanded, discovering a firm objection beneath each harmless remark. Virchow's noded adj. Drunk enough to become a conspicuous, immovable lump in the far corner of the pub. Marriyah was Virchow's noded, enlarged by drink and fixed beneath the television. Virchow-Robin spaced adj. You are drunk and granting white cells their own broad avenues between vessel and membrane. Enaysia was Virchow-Robin spaced, directing traffic through the margins of her own head. Virgilianismed adj. Of a drinker who has turned the journey home into a stately account of losing his keys. Indio went Virgilianismed, giving the taxi driver a measured account of his heroic departure. Virgilismed adj. Describing a drinker who invests a missing coat with the dignity of an imperial tragedy. Lavani was Virgilismed and mourned her vanished coat beneath the pub's fluorescent lights. Virgin Caesared adj. A drinker so far gone that tomato juice and spices appear a convincing substitute for alcohol. Kainoa arrived Virgin Caesared and ordered a ceremonial glass of spiced tomato juice. Virgin Islandered adj. The state of being drunk and distributed across several islands of conversation. Maicyn was Virgin Islandered, holding separate conversations at opposite ends of the garden. Virgin Maried adj. The condition of a drinker who has mistaken a sober tomato drink for a final act of redemption. Zenja was Virgin Maried, sipping tomato juice and awaiting a moral improvement that did not arrive. Virginia bluebelled adj. Reduced by drink to a spring-flowering delicacy, nodding attractively whenever the draught reaches her. Maryiah was Virginia bluebelled, swaying beside the window with the composure of a woodland plant. Virginia cowslipped adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a delicate bluebell and is therefore no use with the shopping. Kywaun was Virginia cowslipped, reclining among the garden plants instead of carrying the bags.