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
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Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows.
From A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
Where should a man find any one so sottish as would make a doubt which of these to prefer in his choice?
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
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 Edward Prime-Stevenson
Morally licentious and politically decadent the Venetians undoubtedly were; but they were neither brutal, nor cruel, nor savage, nor sottish.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
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