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
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
Fair promises, with certain drawbacks, are made to children of the twenty-third day; and infants of the twenty-fourth day will be good-tempered, perhaps sottish.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
As a first step Hanriot, a sottish but very determined battalion leader, was placed in supreme command of the national guard.
From The French Revolution A Short History by R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston
Powder and ball were to be had in the guard-house, so I ran across the grass and into the block-house where Wraxall, our sottish Johnstown barber, stood shaving Mr. Duncan.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
