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Meanings of so contemptible in English

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Usage of so contemptible in English
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Simply because I am not quite so contemptible as you think me.
The Emancipated
2
No, I shall not be so contemptible as to betray my friends.
Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
3
And that was what she found so contemptible about most of them, really.
New york: the novel
4
I would not have you neutral if I could, it is so contemptible.
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
5
Thy towering pride of heart also, and thy so contemptible vanity.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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But you are so contemptible that I haven't the heart to punish you.
Old Ebenezer
7
Harriet's claims to marry well are not so contemptible as you represent them.
Emma
8
Without this experience I never could have believed my species to be so contemptible.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 02
9
I can't imagine how people can make themselves so contemptible.
A Houseful of Girls
10
They cannot even settle so contemptible an affair without me!
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 05
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But there was something in this whole affair so contemptible that it hurt his pride.
The Highgrader
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If I had put in so contemptible a plea, you would have lost your cause.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
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I thought you an honest man, on the wrong side-nothingso contemptible as a spy.
A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
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I know nothing so contemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the indefensible.
Orthodoxy
15
Revealed by the weird light, the miserable countenance of the miser had never looked so contemptible.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
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Nor is their navy so contemptible as some have, either by conjecture or misinformation, represented it.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 / Parlimentary Deba...
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