despisable

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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

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

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson

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

"A peddler without goods and without money is sure to be despisable."

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore

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