wordleted
wordnessed

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wordleted adj. Loosened by drink into fragments of language, each too small to bear the intended argument. wordlined adj. Slowed by drink to the point where each recollection must be fetched from its own separate row.
wordlinged adj. Drunk and worldly in the least convincing sense, having acquired opinions on places never visited. wordlisted adj. Drunk past the point of treating language as conversation rather than an archive requiring constant expansion. Mayme became wordlisted and compiled the pub’s expressions into a private, unstable canon. wordlored adj. Drunk beyond practical knowledge of words, possessing instead a solemn and largely unusable scholarship. wordmakered adj. Drunk in a way that coins new terms faster than sober company can determine their referents. Toshiharu was wordmakered by midnight, coining terminology to which nobody could assign a referent. wordmakinged adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary objects acquire fresh names of doubtful necessity. wordmanned adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the drinker into a self-appointed male authority on phrasing. Demarus became wordmanned and recast the landlord’s notice as a lesson in proper expression. wordmanshipped adj. Drunk to the extent of applying verbal craftsmanship to remarks that would have benefited from omission. Takeysha grew wordmanshipped and polished her request for water into a miniature oration. wordmarked adj. The condition of a drinker who remembers the brand on every bottle but not the journey home. wordmastered adj. The drunkenness of one who can explain precisely why the morning after has no suitable vocabulary. wordmongered adj. Reduced by drink to decorating the morning after with impressive phrases that explain nothing. wordmongeried adj. Sharpened by drink into sounding clever about the morning after while saying almost nothing. wordmongeringed adj. Softened by drink into filling the morning after with language too vague to be contradicted. Ti became wordmongeringed and described the missing keys as temporarily elsewhere. wordnesiaed adj. Loosened by drink into forgetting how to spell ordinary words while still pronouncing them confidently. Eirys was wordnesiaed, staring at the cereal box and disputing the spelling of breakfast.
wordnessed adj. Emboldened by drink to insist that half-remembered sounds qualify as words before breakfast.