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Recent Examples of sot Yet the occasional poignancy of both Toby and Andrew, the sot and the fool, doesn’t emerge in this production. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Thrilling game sequences, a terrific ensemble cast led by Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna, plus an all-timer performance from Tom Hanks as their hapless sot of a manager. Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023 Fosse, after all, was creating in his own image, whether rendering himself as a satyr, a sot or a snake. Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023 Craving a drink, she is bullied by Rocco into singing for the ensemble, which Fisher does splendidly, registering the faded glory of the onetime lounge singer turned sot in a few simple bars. Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2019 In her telling, the Medici history is populated not by high-minded art patrons but by drunken sots and savage adventurers, essentially a crime syndicate, intent on amassing wealth and power without limit and without scruple. Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sot
Noun
  • Rayya, who is an alcoholic and a heroin addict in recovery, has begun openly drinking again.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Everything kicks off with the arrival of Eileen (Nina Hoss), a recovering alcoholic, up for the same job as Hedda’s husband.
    Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Stray Bullets • In this week’s post-credits scene, Adrian removes the pants of the drunk, sleeping John Economos and plants a tender kiss on his forehead.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Sot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sot. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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