despisable

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Anything but resentment there would have been unnatural, not to say inhuman and despisable, in a daughter.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

"I wouldn't humble myself to speak to such a despisable man."

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson

"And then you will be despisable," said the housekeeper bitterly.

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore

A basin o' porridge may be,    To some a despisable dish, But it allus comes welcome to me,    If awve nobbut as mich as aw wish.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

"And care thrown away I may well call it; for Harvey is quite too despisable to be any sort of compensation at present."

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore