sot

He fired a sot from the right circle that eluded Greiss’ stick with 5:44 remaining.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Others have pointed out that Molière used the expression “un sot savant” in Les Femmes Savantes as far back as the late 17th century.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2017

While the designated sot stumbles through said tale, an assortment of familiar actors in period garb re-enact the story as described more or less exactly, flubs and all.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2016

I figured that by sunrise, the resourceful Josie would have sorted out this romanticizing sot.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2015

Islanders knew him as a nautical sot who affected the gait and mannerisms of a sea captain: he tipped his captain’s hard-billed blue cap wherever he went on San Piedro.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

But Droegemeier can connect the sots for Trump to science, too, too.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2018

He always called his underlings "big shots," which, in Greco-Skouras, came out "big sots."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to divide the world into the elect who . . . have the answers . . . and the sots who are foolish enough not to be so sure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the many newspaper tales of sots and suicides arising last week from the Bonus payment of $1,900,000,000 in black & green $50 bonds, the average Veteran played a watchful, waiting game.

From Time Magazine Archive

But at last the regular customers collected; the sots, the dead-beats, the human wreckage of both sexes, the woman of a fat pallor, the woman without a nose....

From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett