sotted

[ sot-id ]

adjective

1. drunken; besotted.

Other Words From

• un·sotted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sotted¹

1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to sotten to be a sot (derivative of sot ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

I mention these sotted stats for context.

From Washington Post

To an extent I have never found appealing, post-Soviet Russian leaders are eager to please the West—the sotted Yeltsin was craven in this regard—and in Putin’s case this comes over as a desire to achieve some kind of parity or partnership status with the Americans.

From Salon

Many of the fraternity, however, are arrant knaves, without the least redeeming leaven of folly; and the Yeoman goes on to tell the tricks by which such an one beguiled a “sotted priest” who had set his heart on this unlawful gain.

From Project Gutenberg

When the morning white and rosy breaks, With the gnawing Ideal, upon the debauchee, By the power of a strange decree, Within the sotted beast an Angel wakes.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor could he hear the careless plea of the sotted rider for just one more drink ringing in VB's burning brain.

From Project Gutenberg