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Contemptuous 1100 Words You Need Week 24 Day 3

Contemptuous 1100 Words You Need Contemptuous 1100 Words You Need /kənˈtemp.tju.əs/ (adj) expressing hatred and contempt, expressing dislike or lack of respect, resentful, scornful, derisive, disdainful, condescending, supercilious, disrespectful, disapproving For Thomas, when early modern people invoked civility, ‘they were implicitly articulating what it was that they valued about their own way of life’; to explore what they meant by it is ‘to probe their fundamental assumptions about how society...

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