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
Fair promises, with certain drawbacks, are made to children of the twenty-third day; and infants of the twenty-fourth day will be good-tempered, perhaps sottish.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
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 George William Curtis
Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows.
From A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
So saying, one of this peevish, sottish band staggered close up to Israel.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
