besotted

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  1. Characterized by or indicative of stupidity; stupid; infatuated. Besotted, base ingratitude. Milton, Comus, l. 778. Historical painting had sunk … on the north into the patient devotion of besotted lives to delineations of bricks and fogs, fat cattle and ditch water. Ruskin.
  2. Made sottish by drink; stupefied by habitual intoxication.

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  • Which is all to say that they led the kinds of lives even a greed-besotted, hedge fund-managing workaholic of the early 21st century would have found punishing, every minute of every hour accounted for, every second of every minute.
  • His entire demeanor changed in the blink of an eye from fearful to that of a man besotted, and his voice became as smooth as honey as he recounted the meeting. —  Garwood, Julie - Ransom
  • She has been applauded for administering the state with a blatant authoritarian stick, while others have been peeved by what they consider to be her megalomaniacal tendencies, but for her besotted supporters, who easily run into the tens of millions, she remains their beloved bahenji. —  The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
  • Being besotted (like being outraged) isn't unusual for Klein. —  The Corner
  • If I wasn't already so besotted, then I may have fallen in love with Yuno —  Hop Step Jump!
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