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
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 Gozzi, Count Carlo
That in consequence of this determination she "got herself acquainted" with another lover—not a Scottish and sottish soi-disant M. P., but a real, unadulterated, and genuine Irish Mem.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John
All's but naught, Patience is sottish, and impatience does Become a dog that's mad.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Yet withal, he was fairly well-intentioned, not a meddler, never wantonly unjust, willing to do kindnesses, if not fatiguing; a heavy, good-natured, heathenish, sottish lout of a king.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
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