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
"Our sottish and idle enthusiasts are to be reproved who call learning but a splendidum peccatum."
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
Yet withal, he was fairly well-intentioned, not a meddler, never wantonly unjust, willing to do kindnesses, if not fatiguing; a heavy, good-natured, heathenish, sottish lout of a king.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
Thou callest, 'Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings;' but we have been foolish, sottish children, without understanding, wise to do evil, but to do good having no knowledge.
From The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham
A more sottish crew of rakes you never saw.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
