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

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

So saying, one of this peevish, sottish band staggered close up to Israel.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

As a first step Hanriot, a sottish but very determined battalion leader, was placed in supreme command of the national guard.

From The French Revolution A Short History by Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)

My Grandfather was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that order in the management of life is sottish, but looked upon it rather as "Heaven's first law."

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins