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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"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 Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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
This is sottishness, rather than generalship, in our local commanders.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
And how fewer of them would hold together, did not most of the wife's actions escape the husband's knowledge through his neglect or sottishness!
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
