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

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

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

And while you cruise and lay down the same, and indeed during all that here ensueth of Directions for your following, avoid foolish Conversation and sottish Pleasantries with those about you;

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward

As I would be no let or over-vehement in any thing, so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the commonwealth.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David