sottise
French edit
Etymology edit
From sot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sottise f (plural sottises)
- stupidity, foolishness
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
- La sottise, l’erreur, le péché, la lésine / Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
- Foolishness, error, sin, miserliness / Occupy our minds and work on our bodies,
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → German: Sottise
Further reading edit
- “sottise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.