- 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 contemptĀ 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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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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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...
- 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...
- **** 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...
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dwindled our commerce, and
other similar pursuits, into the most
contemptible insignificance; sunk a
large majority of our
people in
galling poverty...
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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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Western Front in
Lorraine &
Alsace at
Battlefields Europe 'That
Contemptible Little Army' by E.
Alexander Powell. The
British Army Seen by an American...
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without reason and even brag
about it, and
nobody stands to
check this
contemptible and
dangerous tendency" and that they
believed that "the only language...