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

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 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

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 Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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.

As I would be no let or over-vehement in any thing, so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the commonwealth.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David