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Meanings of very contemptible in английском

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Usage of very contemptible in английском
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I should be very contemptible to indulge in such a thought.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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The costume was merely an advertisement, and of very contemptible wares.
Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"
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He proved its correctness, and then wrote Mr. Denning a very contemptible letter.
The Man Between: An International Romance
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Voltaire's verses to Robert Covelle are not only very bad, but very contemptible.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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He thought Bowles "a very stupid and a very contemptible fellow."
Sydney Smith
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I am a very contemptible creature, the handsome scabbard of a man, precisely as Owain said.
Chivalry
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It's very contemptible of me, I own.
The Vision of Desire
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Oh, I must have been very light, very contemptible, if that was what he thought of me!
When a Man Marries
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Our sufficiency is cut out into small parcels; mine has no latitude, and is also very contemptible in number.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17
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Hence arose a grossly phallic cult, very contemptible to those more fortunate persons who had no need of it.
Last and First Men
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Mrs. Talbot having proved a very contemptible adversary, he is charmed at this chance of getting rid of her.
The Haunted Chamber: A Novel
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Carlyle has a hairy strength which makes his literary vocation a mere chance, and what seems very contemptible to him.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18...
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This farrago of folly, this pride of birth, and riches, and I know not what else lumber, is very contemptible!
Anna St. Ives
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People who have done things once and left them off make one feel very contemptible, as if one were using cast-off fashions.
Daniel Deronda
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Fill the contending parties with a fuller spiritual life, and the ground of their differences will begin to dwindle, and look very contemptible.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
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I am a very contemptible creature, the empty scabbard of a man, precisely as Owain said. This settled, Richard whistled to his dog.
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
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