sot

He fired a sot from the right circle that eluded Greiss’ stick with 5:44 remaining.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Others have pointed out that Molière used the expression “un sot savant” in Les Femmes Savantes as far back as the late 17th century.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2017

While the designated sot stumbles through said tale, an assortment of familiar actors in period garb re-enact the story as described more or less exactly, flubs and all.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2016

I figured that by sunrise, the resourceful Josie would have sorted out this romanticizing sot.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2015

‘Of course. All except Grandsire. He wouldn’t hide with the women and farm animals and he couldn’t go fight. He was sot on sitting it out under his own roof.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

But Droegemeier can connect the sots for Trump to science, too, too.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2018

Despite the many newspaper tales of sots and suicides arising last week from the Bonus payment of $1,900,000,000 in black & green $50 bonds, the average Veteran played a watchful, waiting game.

From Time Magazine Archive

He always called his underlings "big shots," which, in Greco-Skouras, came out "big sots."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to divide the world into the elect who . . . have the answers . . . and the sots who are foolish enough not to be so sure.

From Time Magazine Archive

He told us, for instance, that he was a person of exact sobriety; such being the obligation of his high estate: the commons might be sots, but the chief could not stoop so low.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson