sottisiern.
A collection of sottises; esp. a list of written stupidities. Also transferred and figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > stupid deed, thought, etc. > collection of
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1929 E. Pound Let. 1 Feb. (1971) 224 The simplest and briefest form of attack is by a sottisier... Make your sottisier from Poetry and the main literary reviews, Sunday supplements, etc.
1944 Horizon Sept. 187 Nor is it [sc. Finnegans Wake] a mere sottisier.
1959 Observer 30 Aug. 13/7 A cast-iron certainty for the September Sottisier Stakes.
1969 J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. ix. 238 It would be easy to compile a fair-sized sottisier of such remarks, but not very amusing.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 345/5 The sloppy editing and the sottisier of an index, with its general confusion of names, styles, titles and sexes.
1978 Times 22 Mar. 11/8 Ginger Rogers..under-rehearsed commentary is a sottisier of all the awful things Americans are supposed to say.
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