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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 Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

This is sottishness, rather than generalship, in our local commanders.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

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 Wilson, John

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

But, besides, I know not what I should rather admire in him, his presumption or his sottishness.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony