sottish
Americanadjective
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stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.
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given to excessive drinking.
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pertaining to or befitting a sot.
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Example Sentences
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Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deering's grin was sottish, the fellow was grossly fat, and he fixed his greedy glance on Stannard's note-book.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
The Easy Chair has seen such frantic gobbling at a railway eating-room that it could only gaze in wonder at the sottish and, so to speak, drunken eating.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis
Surely the finger of scorn ought to be pointed at the men who are base enough to wish, and sottish enough to attempt, to unsettle a whole language.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
There was no mistake about it—every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering.
From True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by D. A. Helm
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