ADJECTIVE
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given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
thick boozy singing
a drunken binge
a bibulous fellow
his boozy drinking companions
a bibulous evening
sottish behavior
two drunken gentlemen holding each other up
How To Use sottish In A Sentence
- 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. Milton's Angels
- Father left Alexander to his sottishness and went out of the house, walking the streets until it was over. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
- The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck. The Curse of the Wendigo
- The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- Nullam virtus respuit staturam, virtue refuseth no stature, and commonly your great vast bodies, and fine features, are sottish, dull, and leaden spirits. Anatomy of Melancholy
- 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. ' Sole Music
- She sottishly told me,in that morning, that she swilled in the night before.
- She sottishly told me,in that morning, that she swilled in the night before.
- He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
