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
My Grandfather was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that order in the management of life is sottish, but looked upon it rather as "Heaven's first law."
From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
The Easy Chair has seen such frantic gobbling at a railway eating-room that it could only gaze in wonder at the sottish and, so to speak, drunken eating.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William
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)
As a first step Hanriot, a sottish but very determined battalion leader, was placed in supreme command of the national guard.
From The French Revolution A Short History by Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)
