sottish

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Deering's grin was sottish, the fellow was grossly fat, and he fixed his greedy glance on Stannard's note-book.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold

But the monk was snoring deeply, and the bloated face which was turned towards him displayed that abandonment of repose which bespeaks a very sound and even sottish slumber.

From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Everett-Green, Evelyn

And a swine-herd passed with his swine, Deformed; and I heard him growl; Two eyes of a sottish shine Leered under two brows as foul.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

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