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

To all the shallow sophistries or sottish errors, that tended to falsify his glorious dream of world-wide British unity, Franklin presented a merciless intellect.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

But the monk was snoring deeply, and the bloated face which was turned towards him displayed that abandonment of repose which bespeaks a very sound and even sottish slumber.

From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Everett-Green, Evelyn

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 Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by Crocker, T. Crofton

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