Both Uses
contemptible
in
Animal Farm
(Edited)
- They could not understand, they said, how even animals could bring themselves to sing such contemptible rubbish.
p. 39.9contemptible = very bad (deserving no respect)
- The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act.
p. 103.6 *contemptible = very bad
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemptible) very bad (deserving no respect)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)