contemptible
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Seizing a sheet of paper, I wrote: "Contemptible old creature, your daughter no longer loves G——, she loves a door-keeper in the Théâtre Italien, who is a very handsome fellow."
From Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Bashkirtseff, Marie
Contemptible villain, liar and tyrant, I will not reveal to you.
From The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief by Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)
Contemptible in numbers, shipping and appointments, the concentrated opposition of even a few petty chiefs could have scattered them to the winds, or sent them "howling to their gods".
From Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada by Dubh, Scian
It was the cherubic Old Contemptible who could tell each detail of war-history, when the car reached Albert.
From Everyman's Land by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
Contemptible as was her essay, yet a saying of hers about Voltaire was clever.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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