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held in contempt

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
held in -con-tempt
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of hold in contempt

Questions

What does held in contempt mean?
simple past and past participle of hold in contempt

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