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

And while you cruise and lay down the same, and indeed during all that here ensueth of Directions for your following, avoid foolish Conversation and sottish Pleasantries with those about you;

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward

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

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)