Both Uses
contemptible
in
Wuthering Heights
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- ' "But then," I continued, holding myself ready to flee, "if poor Catherine had trusted you, and assumed the ridiculous, contemptible, degrading title of Mrs. Heathcliff, she would soon have presented a similar picture!†
p. 132.5contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
- I've a very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit.'†
p. 198.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemptible) very bad (deserving no respect)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)