sottish

Example Sentences

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Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

There was no mistake about it—every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering.

From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Helm, D. A.

Others are so notoriously sottish, that being over head and ears in the myrie puddle of gross ignorance, yet they will by no means see or acknowledge it.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

So saying, one of this peevish, sottish band staggered close up to Israel.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman