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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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 Wingfield, Lewis
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 Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)
"But what foolishness and craziness and sottishness for Ishmael to be in love with Miss Merlin!" exclaimed Hannah impatiently.
From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
The mind thus enslaved, necessarily loses its interest in the processes of other minds; and its tendency is to sink down into absolute stolidity or sottishness.
From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan
His sottishness and want of spirit, in that he thought that, without any other demonstration or sufficient argument, the world would be pleased to make his blockish and ridiculous impositions the rule of their devices.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
