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
To all the shallow sophistries or sottish errors, that tended to falsify his glorious dream of world-wide British unity, Franklin presented a merciless intellect.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
And can any be so sottish, as to think all those things the productions of chance?
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Madison J. Cawein
