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

To all the shallow sophistries or sottish errors, that tended to falsify his glorious dream of world-wide British unity, Franklin presented a merciless intellect.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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 Douie, James McCrone, Sir

The organs of the various benevolent societies come weekly or monthly to our doors, detailing scenes of sottish ignorance, of pollutions and misery, which cause philanthropy to weep.

From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Clark, Sereno D.

So saying, one of this peevish, sottish band staggered close up to Israel.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman