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
Deering's grin was sottish, the fellow was grossly fat, and he fixed his greedy glance on Stannard's note-book.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
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 Frederic Stewart Isham
But this was not from the sottish satisfaction of wine: the light came from that subtle window in his soul, from which once more the shutters had been thrown back.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
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 Elizabeth Robins Pennell
