sottishness
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a word derived from
sottish.
sottishadjectivestupefied with or as if with drink; drunken.
Example Sentences
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The Abbot of Clugny said that they had lost St. John's minster through him, and through his great sottishness.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
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 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