contemptible

contemptible (kənˈtɛmptəb^əl)

—*adj*
	deserving or worthy of contempt; despicable

contempti'bility

—n

con'temptibleness

—n

con'temptibly

—*adv*

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contemptible

late 14c., from L. contemptibilis, from contempt-, pp. stem of contemnere (see contempt).

Example sentences

Disgust and contempt motivate and sustain the low ranking of things, people,

and actions deemed disgusting and contemptible.

It is all a contemptible fraud that has gone on for decades.

It makes him feel that all that does not renovate society from his point of

view is frivolous and contemptible.

When you do this, you spoil it of everything sublime, and it immediately

becomes contemptible.

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"Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books."

-W.H. Auden