Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stupefied from or as if from drink.
- adjective Tending to drink excessively.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a sot; having the character of a sot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
alcoholic ,drinking heavily - adjective
drunk - adjective
foolish ,stupid ,senseless
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
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Examples
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For this we have been called a sottish, an insatiable, and tumultuous people -- and to punish us for this offence the world has been told we deserve all those horrible calamities which, year after year, since that time have been inflicted on us!
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After the spirit of Covetousness has secured the bounties and luxuries of this life, the "sottish" Ahaz (Possessor) turns to the worship of Rimmon (Pomegranate), a god of agriculture and the fit representative of Gluttony.
Milton's Angels 1884
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Elsewhere, an army of male admirers, with their expressions of longing for sottish outbursts and fleshy curves in slips, echoes not only Paglia's wonderful 1992 essay on "pre-feminist" Taylor, "Hollywood's Pagan Queen", but the lamentations of the officially flesh-hating Vogue, which now declares that the woman, with all her absurd rocks, furs and white hotpants, is a fashion icon as well as a sex siren.
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett 2011
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In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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There'd have been no talk of roasted fags or expulsion for sottish behaviour, either.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you. '
Sole Music 2010
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The [6533] Parthians of old were so sottish in this kind, they would rather lose a victory, nay lose their own lives, than fight in the night, 'twas against their religion.
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Nullam virtus respuit staturam, virtue refuseth no stature, and commonly your great vast bodies, and fine features, are sottish, dull, and leaden spirits.
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