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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Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery.
From Time Magazine Archive
A more sottish crew of rakes you never saw.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Morally licentious and politically decadent the Venetians undoubtedly were; but they were neither brutal, nor cruel, nor savage, nor sottish.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
Others are so notoriously sottish, that being over head and ears in the myrie puddle of gross ignorance, yet they will by no means see or acknowledge it.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
Powder and ball were to be had in the guard-house, so I ran across the grass and into the block-house where Wraxall, our sottish Johnstown barber, stood shaving Mr. Duncan.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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