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besotted

[ bih-sot-id ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

infatuated or obsessed:
The besotted mom showed off pictures of her new baby.
They had one date and he was utterly besotted.
intoxicated; drunk:
We found him besotted with wine.

besotted

/ bɪˈsɒtɪd /

First recorded in 1580–90; besot + -ed ²

He's already got some of them besotted with his poverty rhetoric.

The new Asian elite could certainly use a Tom Wolfe or two, but Kwan is far too besotted for the task.

The besotted Broadwell may have viewed the curvaceous Kelley as a threat.

He embraces asymmetry, is besotted by rhinestones, and swoons over the promise of romance hidden in dark shadows.

Peterson has even inspired a now satire blog where one besotted woman posts her love-struck messages to the convicted killer.

But I declare this king worthy of being confined as a madman if he were so atrociously besotted.

She beheld an unknown Jenkins, wild-looking, stammering with a besotted laugh and outraging hands.

The besotted world is not worth the pother this foolish young married woman makes over it.

You are all besotted—hag-ridden—drunkards sitting in the stocks, and bowing down to the said stocks, and making a god thereof.

Appreciation, fairness were all very well, but this besotted heroine-worship was a little pitiable.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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