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

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

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

All's but naught, Patience is sottish, and impatience does Become a dog that's mad.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

That in consequence of this determination she "got herself acquainted" with another lover—not a Scottish and sottish soi-disant M. P., but a real, unadulterated, and genuine Irish Mem.

From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John

Morally licentious and politically decadent the Venetians undoubtedly were; but they were neither brutal, nor cruel, nor savage, nor sottish.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo