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

This Prince, however dull and sottish, might have sense enough to see that be could no where be in a worse condition than he was in his Native Country.

From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by Williams, John

Deering's grin was sottish, the fellow was grossly fat, and he fixed his greedy glance on Stannard's note-book.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold

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

A more sottish crew of rakes you never saw.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)