sottish

Example Sentences

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Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery.

From Time Magazine Archive

And can any be so sottish, as to think all those things the productions of chance?

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

As a first step Hanriot, a sottish but very determined battalion leader, was placed in supreme command of the national guard.

From The French Revolution A Short History by Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)

My Grandfather was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that order in the management of life is sottish, but looked upon it rather as "Heaven's first law."

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

The idea of making war can nowadays only enter the brain of a sottish bourgeois or a belated romantic.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole