despisable

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The' hain't nothin' more despisable than a body 'at goes meachin' around like some old sheep-stealin' houn' dog.

From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne

If I'd ha' been the manner o' man you'd ha' liked for a husband, I should ha' been despisable.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

But still, just to seer all ther places,    When they're gethred raand th' harston at neet, Fill'd wi six roosy-red, smilin' faces;    It's nooan a despisable seet.

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

No, Father; no man shall ever say I failed to respond to the call of my Prince, despisable though I believe him to be.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

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