sotted

American  

[sot-id] / ˈsɒt ɪd /

adjective

1. drunken; besotted.

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Other Word Forms

• unsotted adjective

Etymology

Origin of sotted

1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to sotten to be a sot (derivative of sot ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

I mention these sotted stats for context.

From Washington Post

To an extent I have never found appealing, post-Soviet Russian leaders are eager to please the West—the sotted Yeltsin was craven in this regard—and in Putin’s case this comes over as a desire to achieve some kind of parity or partnership status with the Americans.

From Salon

Many of the fraternity, however, are arrant knaves, without the least redeeming leaven of folly; and the Yeoman goes on to tell the tricks by which such an one beguiled a “sotted priest” who had set his heart on this unlawful gain.

From Project Gutenberg

When the morning white and rosy breaks, With the gnawing Ideal, upon the debauchee, By the power of a strange decree, Within the sotted beast an Angel wakes.

From Project Gutenberg

For the amplyfyinge of which proposition, I will not bring forth, the immoderate loue of Paris by forsaking his owne Natiue country of Troy, to visite fayre Helena in Greece, nor yet tell how Hercules gaue ouer his mace to handle the Distaffe, vpon the commaundement of Omphale, nor yet how Sampson and Salomon were sotted in the slaueries of Dalida and other concubines.

From Project Gutenberg