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
The idea of making war can nowadays only enter the brain of a sottish bourgeois or a belated romantic.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
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
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
