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

Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows.

From A Vanished Hand by Doudney, Sarah

"Our sottish and idle enthusiasts are to be reproved who call learning but a splendidum peccatum."

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

The idea of making war can nowadays only enter the brain of a sottish bourgeois or a belated romantic.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole

There was no mistake about it—every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering.

From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Helm, D. A.