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
In the frequent intervals during which the royal authority was in the hands of sottish wastrels, the chance of independence was no doubt seized.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie
A dozen pair of leering eyes were fixed upon him; a dozen mouths were wrinkled into sottish smiles, called up by his sufferings at that critical moment.
From The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer by Oliver Optic
This Prince, however dull and sottish, might have sense enough to see that be could no where be in a worse condition than he was in his Native Country.
From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by John Williams
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
