释义 |
contemptiblecon‧temp‧ti‧ble /kənˈtemptəbəl/ adjective literary - The union's tactics were contemptible.
- 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. |