What's the difference between softish and sottish?

Softish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat soft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stoke must have wished they had thought of that when a softish penalty eight minutes before half-time saw United take the lead.
  • (2) The dark blue of the mens' suits give the group a strong structure with the background details retained in a softish focus revealing older family images.

Sottish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The IFS told the Guardian that key Sottish National party pledges, including freezing the state retirement age, increasing universal credit payments, scrapping the bedroom tax and retaining child benefit, are not covered in the Scottish first minister’s proposal to raise public spending across the UK by 0.5% a year.
  • (2) He planted a vineyard, not the most useful of things with which to restart civilisation, and then lay sottish and naked in his tent.

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