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Contemptibly

adverb
1.
In a manner deserving contempt.





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"Contemptibly" Quotes from Famous Books



... the room under it! For me! What a contemptibly little-minded and insignificant person she must think me. The words with which I strove to tell her that I wished to live here as lord, with her as my queen, would not come. She looked at me for a moment as I stood on the brink ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton
... hysterical outburst of temper Mrs. Armine did not know. She seemed to herself to be clinging frantically to the last fragments of her self-control. For so long she had acted a part, that it would be tragic to break down feebly, contemptibly, now close to the ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens


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