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Meanings of contemptibility in English

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bastardia

Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.

bastardia
Usage of contemptibility in English
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I had not had in mind when I spoke the contemptibility of suicide to these people.
The Left Hand of Darkness
2
The old ballad, "I wish I were where Helen lies," is silly to contemptibility.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
3
Neutrality, on the uncertainty and contemptibility of.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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In its way it was a tragedy-thegrimmest of all-forits dominant note was the contemptibility of human nature.
The Grey Lady
5
Cowardice, political, contemptibility of.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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He was, therefore, certainly what the world calls a great man, though he had great faults, and many littlenesses and contemptibilities.
Fred Markham in Russia; Or, The Boy Travellers in the Land of th...
Frequent collocations
Translations for contemptibility
Contemptibility through the time