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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deserving scorn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Deserving scorn; paltry.

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  • adjective obsolete Deserving scorn; paltry.

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scorn +‎ -y

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