Sottish

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! ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1884)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck. ❋ William James Henry (2010)

There'd have been no talk of roasted fags or expulsion for sottish behaviour, either. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ' ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sick man sent for his parish priest, who was a simple and sottish man, and threatened to have him hanged by the parliament of Bordeaux if he did not instantly administer the viaticum to him. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In plain English, the complaint of “My son Benjamin” was drunkenness, of the stupid, pig-headed, sottish kind. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His best-known film role was the hero of the 1981 "Arthur," a spoiled, sottish, charming millionaire. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nullam virtus respuit staturam, virtue refuseth no stature, and commonly your great vast bodies, and fine features, are sottish, dull, and leaden spirits. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[3647] Aeneas Sylvius adds, they are most part miserable, sottish, and filthy fellows, like the walls of their houses, fair without, foul within. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The choice falls on an unshaven, dirty, sottish – looking fellow, whose tarnished paper – cap, stuck negligently over one eye, communicates an additionally repulsive expression to his very uninviting countenance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Seeing men are so fickle, so sottish, so intemperate, why should not I laugh at those to whom [254] folly seems wisdom, will not be cured, and perceive it not? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think all the Anticyrae will not restore them to their wits, [209] if these men now, that held [210] Xenodotus 'heart, Crates' liver, Epictetus 'lantern, were so sottish, and had no more brains than so many beetles, what shall we think of the commonalty? what of the rest? ❋ Unknown (2007)

[207] Plato's own confession, a sturdy drinker; and that of all others he was most sottish, a very madman in his actions and opinions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To see a foolhardy fellow like those old Danes, qui decollari malunt quam verberari, die rather than be punished, in a sottish humour embrace death with alacrity, yet [382] scorn to lament his own sins and miseries, or his clearest friends 'departures. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He's so sottish he doesn't even realize how much danger he's putting us in! The [preacher] and his [congregation] were made sottish with all of the false doctrines in the Christian church today. That sottish man is really [tempting fate] with trying to wake up that fire-breathing dragon. ❋ Nimrod Nineveh (2009)