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besotted
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synonyms: fuddled ???
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Definition:Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"Besotted devotion."
Sir W. Scott.
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Priam: Paris, you speak
Like one besotted on your sweet delights.
You have the honey still, but these the gall;
So to be valiant, is no praise at all.
William Shakespeare. The History of Troilus and Cressida
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he, troubling himself about nothing, eternally besotted in sleepy sulkiness, whence he only roused himself to say disagreeable things to her, sat smoking by the fire and spitting into the cinders.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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It was not in Dorothea’s nature, for longer than the duration of a paroxysm, to sit in the narrow cell of her calamity, in the besotted misery of a consciousness that only sees another’s lot as an accident of its own.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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Seated on the lawn, he looked around with a besotted air at the square beds of vegetables planted by the servants. He gazed, but it was only at the end of an hour that he really saw them, for a greenish film floated before his eyes, permitting him only to see, as in the depths of water, flickering images of shifting tones.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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