Synonyms for besotted


Grammar : Adj
Spell : bih-sot-id
Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈsɒt ɪd


Définition of besotted

Origin :
  • past participle adjective from besot.
  • adj very drunk
Example sentences :
  • If you are not besotted to that man, I am sure you will like it.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • They were greedy, and, in their besotted avarice, they killed the goose.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • But on beholding the laundress' besotted face, she tremblingly drew back.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • That flabby, burly man, happy and besotted, was his own father!
  • Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant
  • Against all this misfortune even my besotted optimism could not prevail.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
  • Of all its sorrows and failures, its frantic follies and its besotted sins.
  • Extract from : « The Dop Doctor » by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
  • He was so besotted with the creature that he refused to listen to me.
  • Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume
  • She wormed out of the besotted wretch the secrets of our Order.
  • Extract from : « Roundabout Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • For was it not he who had been so besotted with the Clown, and keen about its training?
  • Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet
  • He was so besotted by the demon that life could henceforth be only a misery to him, and a stumbling-block to her.
  • Extract from : « Work and Win » by Oliver Optic

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