Usage examples (16)

• So absurdly wise some, and so sottishly foolish others; and both sometime in the same person.
• Ireland deserved what she suffered -- that she has been always sottishly discontented and basely ungrateful.
• He called for champagne -- drank greedily -- finished the bottle -- returned to the gaming-room flushed and feverish -- looked at the players savagely, but sottishly,...
• The measures which they had already tried to smother the discontents of the people, and to repress those violent and illegal consequences of it, had not only proved...