contemptible
/kənˈtɛmptəbəl/ adjective C2- Deserving contempt.
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But you, an ill-favoured and contemptible insect who delights in sucking human blood, I wish that I could have killed you even if I had incurred a heavier penalty.”
At this moment hope makes me despise their riches, which seem to me contemptible.
Yet perchance tomorrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness.
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