Their feeling and experience sufficiently confuteth all that time-wasters now plead for their sottish prodigality.
What a sottish cavil is it then of those ignorant men, that ask us, when we tell them of these things, Whether ever we were in heaven?
The main point of distinction between the Cluricaune and the Shefro, arises from the sottish and solitary habits of the former, who are rarely found in troops or communities.
Wilt thou be so sottish and unwise, as to venture thy soul upon a little uncertain time?
Believe me, there is nothing in all this noise, that thou hast heard of these sottish men, but a design to beguile thee of thy salvation, by turning thee from the way in which I had set thee.
My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I will mention it, to show how ignorant those sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns.
From this we went to hir Chappell that stands besydes the Church of St. Croix, to sy the impression that Christ left wt his foot (so sottish is their delusion) on a hard great stone when he appeared to Ste.
Just as before, he took his "pleasure" coming and going to town, and living the life of sottish ease, as became a man of fashion and a court soldier.
I will not argue pro et contra, as do the sottishsophisters of this town and other places.
And, as for disputing contentiously, I will not do it, for it is too base a thing, and therefore leave it to those sottish sophisters who in their disputes do not search for the truth, but for contradiction only and debate.
Grief is disdainful, Sottish and painful: Then wait on pleasure, And lose no leisure.
A belief in the literal or ostensible meaning of these parables, shows the sottish credulity into which man sinks after his reason has been mortgaged in youth to the priest, who keeps him in the ignorance that is suitable for mental slavery.
What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, studentssottish and duncical?
The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts, to see what the issue would be of that babbling strife and contention.
Look in his face; see the dull, meaningless eye, the nose and lips bloated with habitual sottish tippling.
A non-praying man lives like a beast, nay worse, and with reference to his station, a more sottish life than he.
God would have men learn both what mercy and justice is to them, by his shewing it to others; but if they be sottish and careless in the day of forbearance, they must learn by smarting in the day of rebukes and vengeance.
My first Prediction is but a trifle; yet I will mention it to shew how ignorant those sottish pretenders to Astrology are in their own concerns.
Those admirable verses, Sir, of yours, both English and others, which you have sometimes favoured me with a sight of, will not suffer me to be so sottishas to slight and undervalue so great and noble an accomplishment.
What a monstrous kind of sottishstupidity is this!
An angry, peevish person must be dealt with tenderly, as you handle thorns; but a duller, sottish person, must be more earnestly and warmly dealt with.
And thus quos perdere vult Jupiter hos dementat; yea, the poor children and commonwealth must suffer for such parents' sottish folly.
Behold their sottish idolatries, their absurd superstitions, their want of natural affection, their brutal excesses, their unfeeling oppression, their savage cruelty!
Many more are the excellent sayings of this great man, who was not less famous for his sayings than his example, with the greatest nations; yet died he a sacrifice to the sottish fury of the vain world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sottish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
