Translation
shoddy, badly made; contemptible
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Examples
o .
They live in an old hovel beside the river.
o .
The rotten weather lasted the whole week.
is .
He scrawled the letter and left.
o .
A mangy dog ran through the dark street.
o.
Do not speak to me in such an ugly voice.
-- pours contempt on the quality of the thing. gives o, a hovel; gives o; gives o, a nag; and on a verb, gives i, to scrawl. The root keeps whatever ending it had.
It is scorn, not size. A o may be an enormous wretched house, while a is a small one and might be perfectly charming. -- measures, -- judges.
The line against - is worth drawing carefully. -- is aesthetic or practical contempt: an o simply teaches badly. - is a moral verdict: a o abuses the post. On verbs the same split holds, careless against wicked.
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