Definition of "sottish" []

• Stupefied from or as if from drink. (adjective)
• Tending to drink excessively. (adjective)

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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!"
• "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."
• "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."