Children, Stinking Sluts, Mouldy Brain'd trugs; hellish sottish. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Such sottish contradictions are the minds of men filled withal!. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
A few hours later, sodden, sottish, he lay without motion, face to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
And they had no idea what work their sottish prank had disrupted this night. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
His best-known film role was the hero of the 1981 "Arthur," a spoiled, sottish, charming millionaire. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
From time to time one of the seamen voiced a vague cry, like a drunkard calling out in sottish sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Finding this goodly liquor, the heathens immediately began to slake their sottish appetites and to get drunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference
Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference
The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
But I shall find a way to get rid of you, that I may hear no more such sottish, unmannerly language, to which I scorn to answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference
And it would not have been from one of the sottish wind-talkers in the Senate; the information was not disseminated that widely. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
First rendered reckless by imprisonment -- then hopeless -- then sottish -- and, last of all, from utter despair of freedom, insane!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828] Reference
Many sottish-looking, or if not sottish with the beery texture of those whose only recreation is to be bestially merry at the drink-shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
There was no mistake about it -- every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering. From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
Well, sister, since the truth must out, it may do as well now as hereafter; I think, one way to rouse my lethargic, sottish husband, is to give him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Others are so notoriously sottish, that being over head and ears in the myrie puddle of gross ignorance, yet they will by no means see or acknowledge it. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Nullam virtus respuit staturam, virtue refuseth no stature, and commonly your great vast bodies, and fine features, are sottish, dull, and leaden spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Fair promises, with certain drawbacks, are made to children of the twenty-third day; and infants of the twenty-fourth day will be good-tempered, perhaps sottish. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Could any but wee have bin so sottish, to credit his frivolous perswasions, hoping to finde any stones of such vertue, and here on the fruitlesse plains of Mugnone?. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Herakleides was telling them that whereas their old tyrant had been too sottish to do worse than neglect them, their new one was cold sober, and would never let them be. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
So far, all you have been able to produce is a couple of squalid, sottish drunks and a man who makes a living on tips, and now we are asked to take the word of a dead woman. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Loner]
Ines up at the castle smelt of beer, and his eyelids were sottish. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Even the scanty pride that had survived in one degraded by sottish debauchery might have been nauseated by the contrast. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
Mrs. Barker, a washerwoman who had reformed her sottish husband, was henceforth a mere offence in the eyes of the vicar's wife. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
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