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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
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"word": "造孽"
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"word": "慘"
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"sense": "so appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "of an amount or number: very small",
"word": "säälittävä"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "of an amount or number: very small",
"word": "dérisoire"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "of an amount or number: very small",
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