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
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 Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
But the monk was snoring deeply, and the bloated face which was turned towards him displayed that abandonment of repose which bespeaks a very sound and even sottish slumber.
From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Evelyn Everett-Green
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 Frederic Stewart Isham
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 David Hume
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