Contemptible person
The crossword clue "Contemptible person" is answered by LOUSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOUSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOUSE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for LOUSE
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- Cad - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Dirty rat - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Good-for-nothing - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- __ up; bungle - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Wingless parasite - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Contemptible one - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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