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

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

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

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

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

Surely the finger of scorn ought to be pointed at the men who are base enough to wish, and sottish enough to attempt, to unsettle a whole language.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.