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

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

All's but naught, Patience is sottish, and impatience does Become a dog that's mad.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

"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

In the frequent intervals during which the royal authority was in the hands of sottish wastrels, the chance of independence was no doubt seized.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir