sottish

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Much of this sottish drinking was meant to drown sorrows, and forget the troubles and hardships of black life.

From Literature

The main point of distinction between the Cluricaune and the Shefro, arises from the sottish and solitary habits of the former, who are rarely found in troops or communities.

From Project Gutenberg

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

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Catholics and Protestants had exchanged the kiss of Judas; and Dublin resigned herself to sottish conviviality.

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Just as before, he took his "pleasure" coming and going to town, and living the life of sottish ease, as became a man of fashion and a court soldier.

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