- or
objectionable man or
woman in the
United Kingdom and Ireland, or a
contemptible man in
Australia and New Zealand. In
Australia and New Zealand, it can...
-
General French's
contemptible little army". Hence, in
later years, the
survivors of the
regular army
dubbed themselves "The Old
Contemptibles". No evidence...
- Look up contempt or
contemptible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contempt is an
intense feeling or
attitude of
regarding someone or
something as inferior...
- 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...
-
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...
- ..
dwindled our commerce, and
other similar pursuits, into the most
contemptible insignificance; sunk a
large majority of our
people in
galling poverty...
-
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...
- the
Western Front in
Lorraine &
Alsace at
Battlefields Europe 'That
Contemptible Little Army' by E.
Alexander Powell. The
British Army Seen by an American...
- **** as well as a
pejorative term used to
refer to a de****able or
contemptible individual. It is
generally considered offensive,
though in the past...
- salvation" and his "awfulness and quietness" to the "meagre
lines and
contemptible tortures of the Laocoön" and
argued that "the
grandeur of this treatment...
