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sottish

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sot·tish  (stsh)
adj.
1. Stupefied from or as if from drink.
2. Tending to drink excessively.
sottish·ly adv.
sottish·ness n.
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Adj.1.sottish - given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior"
bibulous, boozy, drunken
drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"
Translations
sottish [ˈsɒtɪʃ] ADJ → embrutecido(por el alcohol)
sottish
adj → dem Trunk ergeben; grin → benebelt
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I do not think either of these soi-disant friends is overflowing with love for the other; but such intercourse serves to get the time on, and I am very willing it should continue, as it saves me some hours of discomfort in Arthur's society, and gives him some better employment than the sottish indulgence of his sensual appetites.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
As a general principle and abstract proposition, Miggs held the male sex to be utterly contemptible and unworthy of notice; to be fickle, false, base, sottish, inclined to perjury, and wholly undeserving.
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Her sottish husband, who had married her principally for the sake of John Ferrier's property, did not affect any great grief at his bereavement; but his other wives mourned over her, and sat up with her the night before the burial, as is the Mormon custom.
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