sottishness
- a word derived from sottish.
Example Sentences
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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 Clouston, William Alexander
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
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)
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
