pixilated

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  1. adjective Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.
  2. adjective Whimsical; prankish.
  3. adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.

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  • Many people never learn to change the cursor into anything but a cursor; some people get so far as to change its color; some people may make a flower, but not a very realistic one, only one that looks blocky, pixilated, unreal and ultimately untenable for a sustained disembodied existence; some people make cars or ships or suns or cats or lovers or anything but what they were asked to, a simple flower. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • She could recognize his eyes and mouth, pixilated, in inky black-and-white dots Oh my God. —  DeadRinger
  • Those grainy, pixilated, yuppie novelties were replacing serious cameras? —  AnalogSFF,May2006
  • There are multi-colored tiles everywhere, like the pixilated building blocks that make up every video game ever designed. —  Brave New Traveler
  • They're Photoshop babies accustomed to pixilated, digitalized, high-definition images colliding on computer screens and to the visual frenzy of major cities. —  TreeHugger
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