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单词 despicably
释义 ˈdespicably, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a despicable manner; contemptibly, meanly.
a1691Boyle Wks. II. 68 (R.) He..may, with due diligence and industry, not despicably improve his anatomical knowledge.a1719Addison (J.), Nor vainly rich, nor despicably poor.1755Young Centaur v. Wks. 1757 IV. 228 To-day crawling out of the earth; and to-morrow more despicably still, crawling into corruption.
2. With contempt; contemptuously. Obs.
1637P. Heylin Antidot. Lincoln. i. 40 Since you speake so despicably of his Majesties chappell.1665Pepys Diary 13 Feb., To see how despicably they speak of us.1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 243, I should think as despicably of his sense.
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