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
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
As I would be no let or over-vehement in any thing, so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the commonwealth.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David
Powder and ball were to be had in the guard-house, so I ran across the grass and into the block-house where Wraxall, our sottish Johnstown barber, stood shaving Mr. Duncan.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Where should a man find any one so sottish as would make a doubt which of these to prefer in his choice?
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
