as in drunk
being under the influence of alcohol
I don't believe it: you're totally plastered at your own dinner party
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Recent Examples of plastered
TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
The wide kitchen windowsill holds an assortment of Santa Clauses, and snow people find a home in the built-in, plastered niche in the dining room.
—oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2022
And the room, van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, with its rough-hewn bed frame and the restful violet color of the plastered walls.
—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022
Invoices filed with the city of Phoenix record Coze ordered more than 10 gallons of glue to hold the mural solidly in place on the plastered wall of Terminal 2.
—Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
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Adjective
Their plastered smiles and scripted pleasantries represented a great loss of emotional freedom and a new level of managerial control.
—TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
The wide kitchen windowsill holds an assortment of Santa Clauses, and snow people find a home in the built-in, plastered niche in the dining room.
—oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2022
And the room, van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, with its rough-hewn bed frame and the restful violet color of the plastered walls.
—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022
Invoices filed with the city of Phoenix record Coze ordered more than 10 gallons of glue to hold the mural solidly in place on the plastered wall of Terminal 2.
—Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plastered
Adjective
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Never before has every half-drunk joke, every stumble of language, been so on the record; never before has the moral climate been so skittish — so quick to litigate tone, ignore intent and presume motive.—
Robert Lynch,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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The next summer, he was removed from a flight at LAX before takeoff while drunk and vomiting, having been seen earlier slamming beer and whiskey in the Delta Airlines lounge.—
Assistant Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
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Immediately after Heckel’s make, Quinonez nailed a 3-pointer of her own, and Fudd finally got one of her signature deep shots to drop after starting 0-for-4.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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Peja walked into Illinois’ gym — hadn’t touched a ball — and nailed 13 straight 3-pointers.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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On one visit, the pizza was smeared in a creamy, garlicky white sauce with a smattering of roasted broccoli.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Clearly, the presence of sugar was no deterrent, as the dog appeared to have enthusiastically investigated the fallen bag, emerging with powdered evidence smeared across his face.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Over the next hour, as the waves battered the three of them in total darkness, Ponson fought to keep everyone alive — holding Mac upright for several minutes, then giving Booga a rest.—
Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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From there, the Royals battered the Milwaukee bullpen.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 2026
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Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Take Jackie, who comes into the ER after a drunken accident.—
Jonathan Hunt-Glassman,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Tuesday night, Clay and Platte county election boards posted unofficial results from all races and issues across the Northland.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Panama’s Public Works Ministry posted a video on social media Tuesday showing engineers surveying the site for structural damage.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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My Proustian madeleine is a sandwich comprised of walnut butter, cream cheese, and Medjool date jam slathered on thick slices of black bread.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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Elote slathered with kewpie mayo, lime, chile, cotija and a sprinkling of furikake.—
Linda Zavoral,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Trump pledged to do right by farmers, who had already been buffeted by his erratic tariff regime and Chinese retaliation.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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Its involvement now raises the specter of further disruption for a global shipping industry already buffeted by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.—
James Legge,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
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