contumely

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There’s a big difference between despised love and disprized love, and between a proud man’s contumely and a poor man’s contumely.

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You can open to nearly any page of this book and find potent anti-Mitch contumely.

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Christie managed to be almost cuddly while dispatching this contumely.

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He prints plenty of contumely — mostly snobbish disapproval from Eastern visitors — about his hometown.

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Rebuke is actually too frivolous a word for the contumely Mr. Wolfe looses in his direction.

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