And within the first 24 hours Dad was the most besotted.

What, then, are your reasons, O most besotted of men?

The girls are, without exception, the nastiest, most besotted drabs that ever walked the streets.

The most besotted inebriate cannot tell you the day, nor the month, when he became a confirmed drunkard.

Dunces become doctors, knaves become saints, and the most besotted characters are glorified when they try their vile mouths and pens against Luther.