sottishly

Tu pete lecticas — — — many brave and worthy men have trespassed in this kind, multos foras claros domestica haec destruxit infamia, and many noble senators and soldiers (as [6054] Pliny notes) have lost their honour, in being uxorii, so sottishly overruled by their wives; and therefore Cato in Plutarch made a bitter jest on his fellow-citizens, the Romans, we govern all the world abroad, and our wives at home rule us.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

So absurdly wise some, and so sottishly foolish others; and both sometime in the same person.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

That I, a preacher! whom the Prince did set up to teach to Mansoul his law, should myself live senseless and sottishly here, and be one of the first found in transgression!

The Holy War 2001

And if men will be so sottishly foolish as to expect the greatest benefits and advantages by the mediation of Christ, -- namely, pardon of sin, salvation, life, and immortality, -- whilst they neglect and refuse to give him any revenue of glory for all he hath done for them, we may bewail their folly, but cannot prevent their ruin.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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 ineffectual, but had aggravated, to a most alarming height, the mischiefs which they were sottishly expected to remedy.

The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation Anonymous

Ireland deserved what she suffered -- that she has been always sottishly discontented and basely ungrateful.

The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation Anonymous

He called for champagne -- drank greedily -- finished the bottle -- returned to the gaming-room flushed and feverish -- looked at the players savagely, but sottishly, for a few moments, and then left the house altogether.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

Dead: some by their own hands; down and out many, drivelling sottishly of by-gone days; poor prospectors a few, dreaming of a new gold strike.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

With him Alexander was the veritable demigod whom he sottishly decreed that his subjects should see in him.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Thus sottishly they live till they have no money left.

The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main George Alfred Williams 1903