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Contemptibility

noun
1.
Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.  Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness.





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... profess a desire for reconciliation even with Darnley: to receive Murray and even Lethington into apparent favour. But Darnley's brief rapprochement with the lords was soon over; his intolerable arrogance was made the worse by his contemptibility. Three months after Rizzio's murder, the envy of the Virgin Queen of England was roused by the birth of a son to Mary. The history of the following months becomes a chaos of which there are a dozen conflicting versions. The one clear fact is that another "band" ...
— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes


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