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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...
- 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...
- '****' 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...
- 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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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...
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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...
- Privately, a
senior aide to the King
confided to his diary: "A more
contemptible, cowardly, selfish,
unfeeling dog does not exist ...
There have been...
-
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...
- and to show off the
undaunted morale of the Marathas,
Rajaram issued contemptible bounties which were
deliberately small to his
generals for capturing...
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members of the Senate.
Though privately continuing to view
Portugal contemptibly for its
perceived atavistic foreign policy towards Africa, Kissinger...
