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very bad (deserving no respect)
- At this moment hope makes me despise their riches, which seem to me contemptible.Chapters 23-24 (25% in)
- Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness.Chapters 23-24 (25% in)
There are no more uses of "contemptible" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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