contemptible

[Con*tempt·i*ble]

Someone or something that's contemptible receives harsh judgment and deserves it. Your desire to bring to justice the contemptible coward who stole your last chocolate bar seemed noble, until you realized you'd eaten it the night before.

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Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

Adjective
deserving of contempt or scorn

Adjective S.
worthy only of being despised and rejected; "a contemptible lack of courage"; "A little, wretched, despicable creature, a worm, a mere nothing...that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth"- Jonathan Edwards

a.
Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

a.
Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.

a.
Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.

Contemptible

Con*tempt"i*ble , a. 1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton.

The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful.

2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. [Obs.]

If she should make tender of her love, 't is very possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit.

Syn. -- Despicable; abject; vile; mean; base; paltry; worthless; sorry; pitiful; scurrile. See Contemptuous. -- Contemptible, Despicable, Pitiful, Paltry. Despicable is stronger than contemptible, as despise is stronger than contemn. It implies keen disapprobation, with a mixture of anger. A man is despicable chiefly for low actions which mark his life, such as servility, baseness, or mean adulation. A man is contemptible for mean qualities which distinguish his character, especially those which show him to be weak, foolish, or worthless. Treachery is despicable, egotism is contemptible. Pitiful and paltry are applied to cases which are beneath anger, and are simply contemptible in a high degree.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

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Usage Examples

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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Other Usage Examples

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?