They made contemptibly lukewarm, stewed tea, not the burning hot, intensely flavoured medicinal liquid that made you gasp as you sipped it. |
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Even the British social history volumes have declared that we have been treated shamefully and contemptibly. |
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The ending isn't contemptibly bad, but it lacks the spark of the rest of the film. |
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She is therefore a victim and thereby relieved of much of her class guilt and no longer hateful, although still contemptibly repressed like all the other toffs. |
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To shock and alarm with enacted savagery is contemptibly easy. |
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