besottedness
- a word derived from besotted.
Example Sentences
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Thankfully, most of the other celebrations of besottedness here require no such cringing.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2019
Given such besottedness, does the writing even matter?
From New York Times • May 18, 2018
I felt, as I say, impatient with Jaffery, although—or was it because?—I recognised the bald fact that he was in love with Doria to the maximum degree of besottedness.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
Such was the general state of besottedness that many of the faithful blissfully accepted the new prediction.
From The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Sue, Eugène
Something should be done for them, too—for that baby, dragging its rag-doll in the cigar-box, poor little soul, abandoned to a life of besottedness, ignorance and evil!
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
