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General French's
contemptible little army". Hence, in
later years, the
survivors of the
regular army
dubbed themselves "The Old
Contemptibles". No evidence...
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person (regardless of gender) in the
United Kingdom and Ireland, or a
contemptible man in
Australia and New Zealand. In
Australia and New Zealand, it can...
- In
colloquial usage,
contempt usually refers to
either the act of despising, or
having a
general lack of
respect for something. This set of
emotions generally...
- Look up contempt or
contemptible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contempt is an
intense feeling or
attitude of
regarding someone or
something as inferior...
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favoured by us,
above any
other subject of this land,
would have in so
contemptible a sort
broken our
commandment in a
cause that so
greatly touches us in...
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whose programs used "****" on the air to
refer to a
person behaving contemptibly. Specifically, the FCC
stated in its ruling: A
number of
complaints cite...
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pejorative term
meaning one who is
stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious,
contemptible or
detestable person. The word came into the
English language from Yiddish...
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calling Earp the "Peoria Bummer," the
newspaper put him in a
class of "
contemptible loafers who
impose on hard-working citizens", a "beggar" and
worse than...
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value or quality,
trivial and
usually boastful or
inaccurate talk or a
contemptible person. It
could also be used to
refer to any
other noun in
general or...
- and to show off the
undaunted morale of the Marathas,
Rajaram issued contemptible bounties which were
deliberately small to his
generals for capturing...
