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

As I would be no let or over-vehement in any thing, so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the commonwealth.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David

His hood had fallen back, displaying a bullet head, red cheeks and purple nose, while the wooden beads of this sottish counterfeit of a friar trailed from his girdle on the ground.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

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 Lodge, Henry Cabot

And can any be so sottish, as to think all those things the productions of chance?

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert