contemptibleness


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con·tempt·i·ble

 (kən-tĕmp′tə-bəl)
adj.
1. Deserving of contempt; despicable.
2.Obsolete Contemptuous.
con·tempt′i·bil′i·ty,con·tempt′i·ble·ness n.
con·tempt′i·bly adv.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


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Sophia has unintentionally hit upon Razumov's previous conformist existence, and her words resonate with Kierkegaard's description of ironic distancing in Concept as "register[ing] a protest against all thecontemptibleness that is nothing but a miserable product of its environment, against all the commonplace people" (280).
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"I was a young man in years," he recalled bitterly, "but I give you my word I was a great deal older than I am now with the worry, meanness, andcontemptibleness of the whole damn thing.
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