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whitepoxed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the face pallid, the recollection mild, and the morning regrettably communicative. whiteprinted adj. Drunk to the extent of reproducing the evening's paperwork in pale, chemical-looking outlines by morning. whiteprintinged adj. Drunk on the strength of a night that has reproduced itself in pale, indistinct documents. whiterooted adj. Drunk since last orders, and spreading through the morning with the quiet persistence of an unwanted plant. whiterumped adj. Drunk by the third round, and presenting by morning a conspicuous pale patch where dignity used to be. Shavanda woke whiterumped, with a white shirt conspicuously visible above the duvet. whiteschisted adj. Having drunk enough to endure severe pressure while maintaining the delicate composure of a mineral specimen. whiteshifted adj. Drunk by closing time, and waking to find the household's social balance apparently altered overnight. whitesided adj. Still drunk, and presenting one pale, turned side to the daylight while avoiding all discussion of yesterday. whitesmithed adj. Too drunk to handle the morning without hammering every small domestic difficulty into a tin-coloured solution. whitesmithinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning practising a tinworker's trade upon anything that will hold still. whitesnowed adj. Having drunk enough to spread across the morning, invasive and low to the ground, wherever room remains. Jaffar whitesnowed across the morning, spreading low over the hallway wherever coats had left room. whitespaced adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every pause as evidence that the unfinished plan is proceeding perfectly. whitesplainered adj. Having drunk more than conversation can support, explaining familiar matters to people who have already understood them. whitesploitationed adj. You have drunk enough to turn the morning's respectable household into lurid entertainment for an indiscriminate audience. whitestarted adj. You are drunk and waking pale, small, and restless, with the morning offering no suitable branch on which to settle. whitestered adj. Of a drinker: a bleacher of the morning's linen, having made the pillowcase substantially whiter by contact.