despisable

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"A peddler without goods and without money is sure to be despisable."

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore

For I'm sure as I stand here, Miss Mabel, that she knew, or thought she knew, somethin' 'bout that poor, despisable wretch that died up in the garret.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

Mister, I don't want to hurt your feeling—but cordin' to my way o' thinkin', paintin' as you do it, an't a trade at all—it's nothin' but a darned despisable fine art!'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various

A basin o' porridge may be,    To some a despisable dish, But it allus comes welcome to me,    If awve nobbut as mich as aw wish.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

The' hain't nothin' more despisable than a body 'at goes meachin' around like some old sheep-stealin' houn' dog.

From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne