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

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 Connor, Ralph

Elinor Goodrich had always been too besottedly fond of her to mind.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Why had he been so blindly, so besottedly confiding?

From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram

Two parents," continued Tim, firmly ignoring him, "who are hopelessly, besottedly in love with each other.

From The Hermit of Far End by Pedler, Margaret