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very bad (deserving no respect)
- 87 It may be remarked, that the character of Thersites, revolting and contemptible as it is, serves admirably to develop the disposition of Ulysses in a new light, in which mere cunning is less prominent.Footnotes (28% in)
There are no more uses of "contemptible" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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