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

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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 Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)

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 France, Anatole

My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I mention it to show how ignorant these sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns: it refers to Partridge the almanac-maker.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various