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Vilipendious Pig-dog! Balatronic Dastardling! Contemptibly Obscure Words

Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | December 4, 2008 | 7 Comments

Mark Peters looks at the 263 words in the Oxford English Dictionary with contemptible in the definition.

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