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wasting palsied adj. Sharpened by drink into progressive muscular atrophy of judgement, with each decision weakening the next. Rashita was wasting palsied and needed both hands to operate a perfectly ordinary door. wasting sicknessed adj. Loosened by drink into a visibly diminished condition, still capable of proposing strenuous improvements. Keltie was wasting sicknessed but volunteered to move every table before closing. wastinged (/ˈweɪstɪŋd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who gradually deteriorates while confidently making matters less efficient. Tanyja grew wastinged and reorganised the queue until nobody knew where it began. wastingnessed adj. Emboldened by drink to let every resource run down while calling the process necessary. Onyae became wastingnessed and spent the emergency fund on commemorative napkins. wastnessed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a wilderness, with decisions arriving singly and badly prepared. Khawlah was wastnessed and took six minutes to choose between two identical crisps. wastoided adj. Drunk and displaying the settled confidence of someone whose supply of sensible decisions has run out. Monreaux was wastoided and tried to pay the bus driver with a loyalty card. wastored adj. Too drunk to squander the evening on one grand purchase, and then defend it as economy. Darihanna bought a decorative tiller at midnight, thoroughly wastored and unable to explain the boat. wastorelled adj. Drunk to the point where time and resources are spent extravagantly, with no useful object in view. Dejanaye was wastorelled and ordered dessert for a table that had already left. wastoured adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend extravagantly on an object whose usefulness becomes apparent only after purchase. Chyra came home wastoured with a velvet chaise intended for the narrowest room. wastrelled (/weɪstɹəld/) adj. Drunk enough to squander time, money and other people’s patience with remarkable composure. Lakiyah was wastrelled and bought a second round for guests who had gone home. wastried (/ˈweɪstɹid/) adj. Drunk beyond economy, restraint or the point at which an extravagant decision can be withdrawn. Sheral was wastried and hired a brass band to accompany the walk to the taxi rank. watamanned adj. You are drunk and leading a disorderly company with the confidence of a provincial commander. Kwanda was watamanned, marching two friends towards a taxi that was not theirs. watanabeited adj. Describing a drinker who has become mineralogical, brittle, and oddly interested in the copper in the plumbing. Haileyrose grew watanabeited and inspected the kitchen tap for arsenic. wataped adj. A drinker who has split the evening into strips and is weaving them into a basket beside the sink. Taymur sat wataped on the kitchen floor, arranging coasters into a canoe. watapped adj. A drinker so far gone that the route from sofa to glass of water requires basketry. Naasia was watapped, threading napkins together between the sofa and the kitchen. watasemycinned adj. The condition of a drinker who has treated the kitchen cupboard as a source of antibiotics. Julieth became watasemycinned and prescribed the biscuit tin to everyone present.