besotted
adjective
infatuated or obsessed.
besottedly
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a word derived from
besotted.
Example Sentences
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This is a thronged, esoteric, besottedly allusive novel, one of the most niche things I have ever reviewed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Mr. Malone's father termed himself a gentleman: he was poor and in debt, and besottedly arrogant; and his son was like him.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Before we had corresponded six months I was besottedly in love with this woman whom I had never seen.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
His wonder now was that he should ever have been so besottedly dull of wit and so stupidly unseeing as to allow the unlovely exterior of the girl to hide the radiant soul within.
From The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail by Ralph Connor
Why had he been so blindly, so besottedly confiding?
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
