obfusticated

And the resistance to date, although humanly understandable, is all about politics, obfusticated with legalisms.

Title to MBH98 Source Code « Climate Audit 2005

His head he found was somewhat obfusticated in drink: he could form no very clear understanding of what was happening and the natural malignity of streets worked on him so that he had no notion at all where he was in this maze of back alleys and cuts.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

His head he found was somewhat obfusticated in drink: he could form no very clear understanding of what was happening and the natural malignity of streets worked on him so that he had no notion at all where he was in this maze of back alleys and cuts.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

As I struggled with the laces, my companion took a quick glance over his shoulder—as though to ascertain that Asher had, in fact, departed—then leaned close to me and said, in a voice that was scarcely louder than a whisper: You had best hit the hay, Poe, for that liquor has made you downright obfusticated.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

When she came down the man was still standing at the threshold smoking an obfusticated pipe.

Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

I played a dirty trick on you and a dirtier one still when I took your half sov, I did, seeing that I ought to have known that you ere just an obfusticated youngster and no bilk as I called you to them flunkeys.

Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

So the sheer number of drunkonyms has been increasing, with BBC culture reporter Susie Dent estimating in 2017 that there are some 3,000 English slang synonyms for being drunk, including "ramsquaddled," "obfusticated," "tight as a tick," and my personal favorite, "been too free with Sir Richard."

Can any English word be turned into a synonym for “drunk”? Not all, but many can. Jennifer Ouellette 2024