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单词 contemptible
释义
contemptiblecon‧temp‧ti‧ble /kənˈtemptəbəl/ adjective literary Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The union's tactics were contemptible.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And the whole affair will be one more contemptible insult to a people on whose lands we are uninvited guests.
  • By the 1880s it had come to mean a contemptible person.
  • He is very sober too, and bears a good moral character; and he is laughable, but not contemptible.
  • I think he is a contemptible mean child.
  • Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
  • These men came home to households where they were not only strangers, but contemptible strangers.
  • You are a worthless and contemptible woman.
not deserving any respect at all SYN  despicable:  They were portrayed as contemptible cowards.
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