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
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 George William Curtis
Powder and ball were to be had in the guard-house, so I ran across the grass and into the block-house where Wraxall, our sottish Johnstown barber, stood shaving Mr. Duncan.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But this was not from the sottish satisfaction of wine: the light came from that subtle window in his soul, from which once more the shutters had been thrown back.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
That in consequence of this determination she "got herself acquainted" with another lover—not a Scottish and sottish soi-disant M. P., but a real, unadulterated, and genuine Irish Mem.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by John Wight
