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

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 Williams, John

There was no mistake about it—every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering.

From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Helm, D. A.

The Easy Chair has seen such frantic gobbling at a railway eating-room that it could only gaze in wonder at the sottish and, so to speak, drunken eating.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

Thou callest, 'Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings;' but we have been foolish, sottish children, without understanding, wise to do evil, but to do good having no knowledge.

From The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Graham, Isabella