besotted

Example Sentences

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This is a thronged, esoteric, besottedly allusive novel, one of the most niche things I have ever reviewed.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the 1920s Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was besotted with the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, and decided that he wanted to own a piece of it.

From BBC

Ms Blackwell said: "You knew he was totally besotted with you. Way over and above what you felt for him?"

From BBC

For the tournament co-hosts, the jubilation that surrounded their 1-0 win over Norway in the tournament opener and transformed a rugby-mad nation into one suddenly besotted by soccer, melted away too soon.

From Washington Times

They were besotted with him and he used their devotion to get them to change their wills.

From BBC