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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When Robby races into the room, our drunk country clubber is being restrained, and his nose is bleeding.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Meet Keoma Duarte, age 41, accused of vehicular homicide of a local cop while driving drunk.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
Verb
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His shot was answered by Nikolas Khamenia, but Demary came down to the opposite corner and nailed one from there, too, to keep the deficit well within striking distance on the very next possession.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
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With 10 seconds remaining, their defense forced a turnover, and the freshman phenom, Mulluns, nailed a three-pointer from the logo on the court.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 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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The Gulf War left Saddam Hussein in power, but weakened and dangerous, a source of regional instability for another decade—a pattern that some fear might be playing out in Iran, if the regime emerges from the war battered but no less entrenched.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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But Ukraine’s drone attacks are also forcing Moscow to deprioritize some exports and protect consumers, who have been battered by high inflation.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 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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Stacy Jennings posted 2 hits, 2 RBIs and a walk while also dominating in the circle, allowing three hits and zero earned runs.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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Rock posted the videos to X on Saturday afternoon.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
31 Mar. 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
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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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The incessant sales pitches are buffeted by the usual deafening pounding music, which makes Vin Scully Avenue seem like Las Vegas Boulevard.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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