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con·temp·ti·ble /kənˈtemptəbəl/ adjective literary BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSnot deserving any respect at all 可鄙的;卑劣的 SYN despicable They were portrayed as contemptible cowards. 他们被刻画成可鄙的胆小鬼。Examples from the Corpuscontemptible• The union's tactics were contemptible.• He is very sober too, and bears a good moral character; and he is laughable, but not contemptible.• And the whole affair will be one more contemptible insult to a people on whose lands we are uninvited guests.• I think he is a contemptible mean child.• By the 1880s it had come to mean a contemptible person.• These men came home to households where they were not only strangers, but contemptible strangers.• Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.• You are a worthless and contemptible woman.con·temp·ti·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable at Corpus not respect any deserving all |