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

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

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

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

Thou callest, 'Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings;' but we have been foolish, sottish children, without understanding, wise to do evil, but to do good having no knowledge.

From The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Graham, Isabella