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

The Easy Chair has seen such frantic gobbling at a railway eating-room that it could only gaze in wonder at the sottish and, so to speak, drunken eating.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

His hood had fallen back, displaying a bullet head, red cheeks and purple nose, while the wooden beads of this sottish counterfeit of a friar trailed from his girdle on the ground.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows.

From A Vanished Hand by Doudney, Sarah

This Prince, however dull and sottish, might have sense enough to see that be could no where be in a worse condition than he was in his Native Country.

From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by Williams, John