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Перевод: contemptible

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1. I was astonished, and a little dismayed, by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things, giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible.
2. And she'd not deal with them in contemptible, contemptuous secret - Lachlan would never take her back then
3. There are useful similes: a degenerate aristocrat "is like rhubarb, a contemptible shrub that springs from a noble root"; and there are aphorisms galore.
4. He had previously written a journalistic piece about the killings, in which De Freitas figured as shabby and contemptible, and Gail Benson as a silly upper-class woman whose accessibility to the knife might almost have been construed as a last desperate act of Sixties modishness: an antic exported from Swinging London.
5. Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
6. Tacitus regarded Christianity as one more contemptible superstition, to the pessimist additional evidence of the sad capacity of human beings to believe strange things.
7. Oh, it drenched me with pleasure, even more than contemptible.
8. What was familiar to others was never, on that account, tedious or contemptible to us.
9. To minds of absolutist temper like Leavis and Winters, this was contemptible; and undoubtedly it is next to impossible to establish criticism as an academic discipline on grounds so sandy and shifting.
10. Both Leapor and "Sophia" find something contemptible in the claims of men to automatic mastery over their wives.
11. If such attitudes are now considered contemptible, it should be remembered that the policy of segregation continued for most of the twentieth century and many people still believe today that mentally handicapped people should be isolated and prevented from having children, even though the hereditary risks are low and can, in most cases, be discounted.
12. So, similarly, in the First World War, we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that "contemptible little army".
13. They were contemptible, and therefore it was easy for governments to squeeze them.