sottish
adjective
stupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.
sottishness
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a word derived from
sottish.
Example Sentences
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There was no sottishness about it, no solitary drinking, no drinking for drink's sake, no drunkenness.
From The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
I would show you how—by the faith of Saint Paul!—it as well befits a fool to talk folly and sottishness as it becomes a wise man to speak wisely.
From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston
It would be vexatious to have to resign a modicum of personal liberty, but the sacking of the castle by a watchful enemy, who knew of its master's sottishness, would be a worse evil.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
The people laughed at the grotesque appearance of some, and at the decrepit sottishness of others.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
But for your stupidity and sottishness you might have known, by attending to the public gazette, that you had your full quantity of ten thousand acres of land allowed you.
From George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge
