Besotting

Millions of Canadians and Americans alike may be happy besotting themselves with hours of mindless drivel like The Bachelor and The Hills, but I just can't do it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On Tuesday, September 8, 2204 BCE, Pharaoh Pepi II will deliver a speech to Egyptian schoolchildren urging them to learn their hieroglyphs and avoid besotting themselves on honey beer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this mediation on power and those who enable the tyrants that keep besotting humanity, she makes no bones about the enablers that allow such horrors to strike. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus I am limiting myself to a brief round up of the hilarious to sad news that keep besotting Venezuela. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tal Cual makes a very serious accusation in its editorial today, an accusation that anyone who watches the current TV reports on the disasters that are besotting our country can make: the government, be it at the national level or at the local level, is trying to politically benefit from the relief effort. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Above all things fearing to lie awake, he gave himself up to drinking deep and besotting himself at night in a way most unsuitable to his age; by all means provoking sleep, as a diversion to his thoughts. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

For more than a century and a half, the moujik had been a beast of burden, toiling as he was bid, and finding recreation only in besotting himself with strong drink whenever he could find the means to indulge. ❋ R. Van Bergen (N/A)

To accomplish these selfish projects, they applied every engine toward besotting the multitude with superstition and enthusiasm. ❋ John Delafield (N/A)

We are not of the number of those who condemn the moderate use of tobacco, but, on the contrary, know right well how to appreciate its soothing and cheering effects; but the difference is wide between a limited enjoyment of the habit, and the stupefying, besotting excess to which it is carried by the Germans. ❋ Various (N/A)

She thinks of binding me down to a besotting work, "continued he," but I won't have it. ❋ Various (N/A)

I had felt a little irritated at the conversation, for I entertained scant sympathy for what I regarded as hygienic fads; and the emphasis with which the lady averred that she touched neither flesh nor alcohol, and felt that by this abstinence she was not "besotting her brain nor befouling her soul," amused me much. ❋ Isabel Meredith (N/A)

Oh, would the world were drunk with wine And not this last besotting brew! ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1920)

For of King Arthur, of Lancelot du Lake, of Amadis, of Huon of Burdeaux, and such idle time consuming and wit-besotting trash of bookes wherein youth doth commonly ammuse it selfe, I was not so much as acquainted with their names, and to this day know not their bodies, nor what they containe: So exact was my discipline. ❋ Unknown (1909)

'Tis not a pretty picture, that memory of white-men besotting the Indian; but I must even set down the facts as they are, bidding you to remember that the white trader who besotted the Indian was the same white trader who befriended all tribes alike when the hunt failed and the famine came. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The information would be useful to a race which knows the sweetness of self - indulgence, and would fain know the art of so drugging or besotting the sensibilities that it shall no feel disgraced by any sort of meanness. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

[te quiero] [dar] un [besote]. ❋ Elias H.D. (2010)

[Luke's] [got] her pathetically besotted. You besotted [fool]. ❋ Intoxicated (2004)

[im] [besotted] with [george] ❋ Mike (2005)

Tommy was [besotted] by [Molly mae] when she was in [casa] amor. ❋ Tommy0496 (2019)

[Henry] is [genuinely] obviously really honestly truly [madly] deeply besotted with Tesswardo. Henry has been besotted with lounadro since they were 18 and 16 ❋ ChickenChili (2017)