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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Muddled or stupefied, especially with liquor; besotted.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Besotted; befooled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete a. & p. p. of sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted.

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  • adjective stupefied, especially with liquor.

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Examples

  • Boredom is the problem, they have the basics and then some, food, clothing, housing, sex, and money leftover to get sotted and lack the gray matter of what to do with their time.

    “We Run ‘Tings, Tings Don’t Run We” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Up until now, “Why would anyone want to own all three films in the Matrix trilogy?” has been one of those unanswerable questions like “what happens to you after you die?” best puzzled over by absinth-sotted philosophers.

    Matrix Trilogy comes in neat toy Nebuchadnezzar | My[confined]Space 2009

  • This foolish and contemptible product of years wasted in mining the shafts of indignation has been published by the cow-besieged, basketball-sotted sleep-away camp for hick bourgeois offspring, Indiana University, under the aegis of its University Press, a traditional dumping ground for academic deadwood so bereft of talent, intelligence, and endeavor as to be useless even in the dull precincts of midwestern state college classrooms.

    P.J. O’Wowser superversive 2009

  • I would strongly suggest to Mr. Greer that he keep his fascist-indoctrinated, ritalin-sotted brats away from my children in Florida's socialist (public) schools.

    Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children 2009

  • The results of that survey could be construed to mean that post-bailout America is truly 'best symbolized' by a power-sotted corporation that exploits its workers, drains our manufacturing base, hammers our trade deficit, and floods our markets with cheap sweatshop products from China.

    Al Norman: Consumer Reports Trashes Wal-Mart 2010

  • We couldn't get ourselves to leave that record store, and instead sat around on these enormous comfortable old sofas absorbing the music like bees sotted on honey.

    The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 4 2010

  • And I have to admit I immediately grew lonesome for lovely Penny, the Helen of our poetry world, and could only think about those lovely nipples of hers during the rest of the beer-sotted evening, how they wobbled when she moved.

    The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 14 2010

  • The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience.

    Theatre de la Foire Young Geoffrion 2009

  • She's welcome to ye, sotted sprout! mielikki said...

    Trouble On Wondawowman (Part Six) 2009

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  • ...patiently suffered my sotted

    No-God and Species Decline stuff...

    - Peter Reading, Thanksgiving, from The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery, 1976

    June 23, 2008